Word: autographer
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...humid summer night, and as usual a crowd is stationed outside the stage door of Manhattan's Palace Theater. There are restraining barriers and a policeman or two, but they do not prevent pandemonium when she comes out. Autograph hounds demand her signature, and as her limousine pulls away, men thrust their cards through the window. "Give me a call, Raquel," says one pudgy fan with a wink. She smiles and passes his name on to her husband, Andre Weinfeld. "This one," she says, "is an accountant...
...shield Garry from sexual autograph hunters. A would-be ingenue (Kate Burton) pinions him and won't take goodbye for an answer. After a night of love, the manager's wife and the producer's mistress (Christine Lahti) hears the tintinnabulation of wedding bells...
...Brawl, is to realize how the traits of style cited against it by detractors-the theatrical "unreality" of costume, the clear, generalized volumes of cylindrical arm or egg-shaped head-actually connect it to the rest of La Tour's oeuvre and help certify it as an autograph work...
Retreating into a shell is harder for those endlessly hounded by autograph-seeking clones and garbage-picking tabloid reporters--often, a pair of sunglasses is the only barrier. But in Jerzy Kosinski's Pinball, rock star Goddard not only manages to escape the publicity bubble but to leave it behind intact. In six years Goddard has struck gold on album after album, selling more records than any other rock star. In those six years, though, Goddard has never given a concert, interview or autograph. He has maintained a better secret identity than Superman. Even Lois Lane was suspicious; Goddard...
Chapman, the son of an Atlanta bank-loan collector, liked working with children, played in a high school band and idolized Lennon. He left his job as a Honolulu security guard and flew to New York with money borrowed from his Japanese wife. After getting Lennon's autograph, he killed his hero with four hollow .38-cal. bullets. He was arrested moments later, carrying a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher...