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  Jerry Lewis is almost better known as a fund for muscular dystrophy than as a comic actor. Mention the pesticide Alar and people think of Meryl Streep. As the highly spokeswoman for Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits, she created such a public stir that the manufacturers took Alar …

  Faster than a press release, printed t-shirts allow stars to express their views worldwide sparing themselves the interviews and statements. And when we’re dealing with touchy topics (ecology, rights, freedom) it becomes an excellent chance to take advantage of one’s popularity.

  But whatever they have been called, press agents, in the course of their quest to canonize the superficial, have always been small history makers. As have the photographers represented by Globe Photos. These men and women have made a record of movie ant television personalities as they want to …