Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told friends: "He was always pushing me to go to Hollywood. He had this image of me, I think, sitting beside a swimming pool under the palm trees, directing or producing movies." The elder Irving evidently wanted his son to achieve what he had never gained -influence, money and fame. But Cliff Irving's priorities, one friend says, are first money, then fame. Although father and son never really got along, Clifford said that before he died, Jay Irving "finally came round. He realized he couldn't change me, and what's more, that I was doing...
Ambivalence. Fay and Cliff were married in 1961 and soon had a son Josh. Their life together was never idyllic. "He drank heavily," Lipton recalls. "His favorite pastime was to get high and spin fantasies of fame and fortune." Sometimes he beat Fay. Apparently he also gambled and womanized, and then lied about his activities to Fay and his friends. For all that, Irving Wallace recalls, "Cliff was a winning person, a little egocentric but very charming, loose and easy...
Hydrant Stops. Pope admits to affection for the "oldfashioned stunts of the Hearst-Pulitzer days." He is now dreaming of a transcontinental train race between Rail Buffs Jackie Gleason and Dan Blocker of Bonanza fame. The Enquirer has offered $50,000 rewards for the first hard evidence of the existence of UFOs and the first contact to be made by a scientist with another civilization in the universe...
...David G. Hubbard produced a prototypical profile of an insecure, effeminate loner who has probably never seduced a woman. Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, the man who hijacked a Mohawk Airlines propjet last week, scarcely fits that pattern. His motive was not an escape compulsion or an aberrant drive for momentary fame. It was a simple, brutal act of financial desperation...
Initially, Mahalia had trouble getting her music accepted in larger, middle-class black churches because of its bumptious echoes of a life most of the parishioners preferred to forget. But as recordings widened her fame, the church doors opened. So, after World War II, did the ears and minds of a steadily increasing number of whites, who bought her records and listened to her weekly radio show. Thus she helped to prime the mass public for later gospel and soul singers...