Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hooray for Hollywood/ That phony super Coney Hollywood," lyricized Johnny Mercer 40 years ago in a sardonic paean to the legend: instant fame, endless sex and the money to pay for it all. Since then the illusion of celluloid glamour has turned into the tawdry reality of a Los Angeles neighborhood of 250,000 people harassed by crime and vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year...
Throughout their four-year marriage, Kris and Rita have led a not-so-private life that would have a soap scenarist sudsing with envy. Can Kris deal with his drinking? Can Rita deal with his drinking? Can she accept his fame as a songwriter, singer and movie actor? Is she furious because he restaged some torrid love scenes from the film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea with Actress Sarah Miles for a Playboy photographer? What's this? Rita has a hit album and a smash single, Higher and Higher. What will her success...
Painter-Diplomat. Fame, money and beautiful lovers-such, Freud tells us, are the chief goals of an artist's life. No painter ever achieved them more fully than Rubens. In a Europe riven by religious and political conflicts, he was one of the first true cosmopolitans: he was both painter and diplomat, and on delicate negotiations (as with his efforts to make a treaty between Spain and England, for which Charles I duly knighted him), Rubens the court portraitist served as splendid cover for Rubens the agent. He spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance...
Like Monopoly. As disaffected investors tell it, Holzer used her Hair-built Broadway fame to recruit backers for a wide variety of foreign import, commodity and real estate deals. She started out with a small group of associates, friends from the Spanish community and Broadway chums, to whom she would casually murmur, say, something about how she had an opportunity to make a bundle on Japanese automobiles imported to Indonesia. At first the results were impressive. One woman gave her $5,000 and made a $12,260 profit within a year. She then got some friends...
...that belonged to Rod Carew. And to know that, .400 season or not, your place in the history of your sport is already secure. "He doesn't have to prove anything," says Manager Mauch. "All he has to do is retire and wait for the Hall of Fame to call." Consider that...