Word: boppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people roaming curiously through the great Harvard Yard. They won't be part of the normal flux of 500-people-per-group tourists whose pictures we have all walked through while they invent new posing positions with the John Harvard statue. Neither will they be part of the teenie-bopper Harvard Model Congress crowd whose biggest thrill is chilling at the T-stop. No, this weekend is Junior Parents Weekend. Hundreds of curious, concerned, but also proud parents have travelled long distances to take a picture with John Harvard, grab a cup of coffee at Au Bon Pain...
...probably because he's been up--once by common teeny-bopper consent the sexiest dude on the planet--and he's been down--recently by common show-biz consent a marginal player, working in hopeless enterprises like Moment to Moment and Perfect, not to mention projects headed straight to video (The Tender)--and really doesn't see much difference between the two. Even when he had a hit like Look Who's Talking, it was an object of contempt in all the better circles. And along the way, he managed to turn down eventual winners like Arthur, Splash...
Degrees of Stardom: Although at the time I met him, Keanu had just been promoted in the legions of teeny-bopper magazines from `star' to `superstar,' Barbra was clearly the reigning prima donna. I was just another kid to Barbra. I was something more to Keanu--I was Keanu's friend...
...Keanu Reeves, the famous movie superstar! America had just added the prefix "super" to his title when I saw him, although what he did to be promoted in the legions of teeny-bopper magazines from "star" to "superstar" I do not know...
First-years annually inject new blood into theHarvard fashion scene, displaying the latest inteeny-bopper haute couture. That is, before theyinevitably evolve into one of the more firmlyentrenched Harvard types...