Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightclub performer and a bit more of a whore. Sporting green fingernails ("Divine Decadence," she purrs to guests in explanation), downing Prairie Cocktails (raw eggs, whisky and worchestershire designed to get rid of the "worst hangovers") and always looking for that one lay which will bring her fortune and fame. Sally is a desperate character whose high spirits are the only assurance she has that she can keep from being a loser. Given half a chance, I suspect that Miss Minnelli might have had the range for such a part--but that half a chance isn't given her. Instead...
...Broadway debut as the office-girl clown, Miss Marmelstein. in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and graduated to the Fanny Brice clown in Funny Girl. Liza Minnelli enjoyed her first solid success as a waif in Flora, the Red Menace, and has now gone on to fame as Sally Bowles, the waif of waifs in the film Cabaret. I Am a Camera, the nonmusical version of Cabaret, starred Julie Harris who had already qualified in The Member of the Wedding as the quintessential American waif. Carol Burnett gawked and geeked her way onstage in Once Upon a Mattress...
...OVER a decade, young followers of William Alfred have looked back to Arthur Kopit's Sputnik rise to fame when he turned squeaky old Agassiz into a Cape Canaveral for Broadway. His Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feeling So Sad was a succes de everything that paved a high way to the big time in the dreams of Harvard playwrights. While the latest Agassiz Grant-In-Aid local-talent extravaganza might show some succes, it decidedly lacks the everything...
...provided just the quote the reporters needed for their mood pieces. "Hey you're a polack. I'm a polack too. I'll vote for you." Muskie smiled, shook his hand. The reporters hastily jotted down the comment and photographers clicked wildly. The worker had made it to national fame...
...gala appearance in the Sheraton Carpenter ballroom. Not only were New Hampshirites confronted daily by smiling red, white, and blue placards on every street corner, but they were offered the opportunity to see a specially prepared documentary narrated by none other than Burgess Meredith, the "Penguin" of Batman fame...