Word: burnouts
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...spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very model of a pestilential dandy, a sure bet for early burnout...
...sentimental in its pessimism for this icy-eyed film maker. He was obsessed with the morality of social ambition, but he preserved those obsessions in a medium, and an oeuvre, that should outlive all those who mourn his death. The camera is stilled. The projector keeps clicking. The burnout burns bright. -By Richard Corliss
...more likely he was simply expanding his range toward more traditional character parts. After a few years of shooting stardom, Belushi was inching to ward mid-life without another climax immediately in view. Now it has found him. In his early days with Lemmings, he had mocked celebrity burnout with the All-Star Dead Band - Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin. Less than a decade later, the samurai comic had provided another ghastly punch line to his own joke. This time, no one was laughing...
...cultural centers of Europe, including Munich, were as full of odd parareligious cults then as California is now. It was Mme. Blavatsky's opinion that before long the material world would vanish, leaving behind its "essence," a world of spirit. Elect souls, the survivors of this benevolent burnout, would communicate with one another in an immaterial manner whose proper art was abstract and ideal, composed of "thought-forms...
...victims of burnout deal with the possibility that being unqualified for the work involved and the psychic energy needed to hide the fact may be the strongest contributing factors in the development of the syndrome...