Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After wriggling and pouting her way to fame as an oversexed nymphet in the 1962 film Lolita, Actress Sue Lyon went through a disastrous marriage. She is now making a comeback as George Hamilton's wife in a new motorcycle epic. She has remarried-this time to a struggling Los Angeles photographer named Roland Harrison, 33. Harrison hopes to become a successful freelancer, and his 25-year-old wife hopes to rise above her reputation as screendom's synonym for overheated pubescence...
...splitting, jubilant sound. His glossy face and keyboard-size grin were a national treasure-and a welcome sight in homes that would not dream of entertaining any other member of his race. He was a musical genius, a remarkable technician of the trumpet who went on to even wider fame as a singer. The fact that his voice sounded exactly like a wheelbarrow crunching its way up a gravel driveway made no difference at all. Legends don't need voices...
...sudden death from heart failure ended a career that spanned the life of jazz. He emerged during its early days, became the first big star to shine in front of a combo. He paved the road over which virtually every jazzman of any importance would walk to fame thereafter...
...went to Paris when they died. Nowadays they go to No, No, Nanette. It's a nice place to expire-with nostalgia, laughter and the ultimate in escapist foofaraw. One can only hope that they gild Ruby Keeler's shoes for the Hoofer's Hall of Fame and vote Patsy Kelly the Most Amusingly Insolent Maid of the Century. To Helen Gallagher, and Bobby Van, let's just say, "Thou swell...
...took it all?the fame, the stimulus, the occasional overload of ambition and the constant bombardment of visual problems?with a charmingly ironic humor. "How good we feel," he wrote to the exuberant Pirckheimer. "Both of us, I with my picture and you with your wisdom. When we are praised we turn up our noses and believe it all. But a nasty mocker might stand behind us and scoff at us." Happily, the future turned out otherwise...