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At Notre Dame: The movie “Rudy” immortalizes a real-life 1975 Notre Dame-Georgia Tech game in which a walk-on football player and a teammate sacked the opposing quarterback, helping the Fighting Irish win 24-3.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

She also does the character— and Carrie Fisher, who immortalizes Leia as an adult— proud.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2022

Such poignant lyricism, however, isn’t only mined from the everyday tragedies and triumphs of the real people she immortalizes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2021

In her memory, her mother and her father’s sister live large; so she immortalizes them in “Two Women,” about what strange bedfellows some in-laws make.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2020

The graffiti on the walls was marked by Deckers and their friends, sometimes the last piece of themselves the Deckers have left behind, something that immortalizes them.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera