Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point of departure for their own individualistic assault on good taste. The plot defies both credulity and synopsis, but has generally to do with the adventures of an all-girl rock trio called the Carrie Nations as they slither from one bed to another on the road to fame in Hollywood. The direction by Skin Flick Impresario Russ Meyer (TIME, June 13, 1969) is full of sexual innuendo of the kind that might impress a lickerish Boy Scout. The script, by Chicago Film Critic Roger Ebert, will surely tickle those who prefer their dialogue with comic-book balloons around...
Eric's script is ostensibly about Helena and Artamisa, two gorgeous siblings who squirm their way to royal fame and power in the Persian-dominated Greek cities of the 4th century B.C. Murray Morris sees them mainly as Lana and Ava in a huge marble bathtub, but Eric shifts the film's focus to the sisters' half brother, Herostratus. Betrayed to the Persians as a Greek rebel by Helena, who is also his lover, Herostratus dashes both sisters' dreams of immortal fame by burning the spectacular Temple of Diana. In one rash act he has overshadowed...
...those who do not believe, the whole thing is clearly a case of chicanery for profit and fame. The Philips contract has brought Rosemary $2,000 to $3,000 but can be expected to earn more. If Rosemary is in touch with Liszt, the best way to prove it is not to produce the lukewarm but pleasant Grubelei she claims to have received from him, but to discover something from the past, perhaps Liszt's now vanished manual of piano technique, which he wrote for the Geneva Conservatoire. The spirits that mediums raise always inconveniently refuse to answer...
Died. Robert Maclver, 88, sociologist and author, onetime president (1956-61) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount...
...Hearst was expelled from Harvard around the turn of the century for the offense of sending to every member of the Faculty a chamber pot with a picture of himself (i. e., Hearst) pasted in the bottom. Hearst, as we all know, became a minor newspaper publisher and achieved fame as the hero of a movie starring Orson Welles...