cause célèbre, Side-Eye, dabbled in acting;

Wagner Founder Has Putin’s Support, but the Kremlin’s Side-Eye

Yevgeny Prigozhin, backed by President Vladimir Putin, is dabbling in politics alongside waging war in Ukraine. It is confounding some of Moscow’s elite.

cause célèbre 

 noun [C] plural causes célèbres an event, such as a famous legal trial, which attracts a lot of public attention

1. 【法】轟動的訟案,有名的案例

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Happy birthday to ballet virtuoso Mikhail Baryshnikov, who turns 60 today. The Russian dancer became a cause célèbre when he defected to the US in 1974. With a passion for modern dance, Baryshnikov and artistic partner Mark Morris founded the White Oak Project, a unique dance company that sets its steps to everything from rock music to silence. Baryshnikov has also dabbled in acting; TV audiences know him as Aleksandr Petrovsky, Carrie Bradshaw's love interest in Sex and the City.

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"If I had to compare myself to Baryshnikov, I'd give up and take up carpentry." — Kevin McKenzie