Suzanne Ely, Mace Neufeld, Dave Kessler: Fame

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Three stories about our relationship to fame in which a boy woos a dictator, a woman is chastised by Demi Moore at MacDonald's, and Frank Sinatra puts Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen in their place. Stories by Suzanne Ely, Dave Kessler and Mace Neufeld.

Dave Kessler

Mace Neufeld

Suzanne Ely and her sister growing up in Baltimore

Suzanne arrives at Whoopi Goldberg's Pacific Palisades home for her 1994 wedding to Lyle Trachtenberg.
She was not invited, but she still managed to get in. Arriving in a limo and acting like you belong helps.

A friend dared Suzanne to shave her head like Demi Moore had recently done.
She took the dare and her friend shaved her head on the spot.

Suzanne conferring with a photographer in a hotel room in Lake Tahoe, California in 1997
while covering Sonny Bono's fatal skiing accident.
Bono died on a deadline day and they were in a mad dash to get news.

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