Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On his arrival in America, writes Boyd, Nabokov "would have to abandon entirely ((his)) hard-earned fame and to win respect over again from scratch, at midcareer, in a new language, at a time when to be a Russian emigre seemed deeply suspect to much of the American literary intelligentsia...
...Vietnam vet exorcised his demons by portraying the war as a rite of passage -- to fratricide. In Talk Radio he suggested that the penalty for a showman's reckless truth telling was to be killed by his audience. Jim Morrison, in The Doors, pays a similar fee for fame; the poet's capricious muse drives him to drugs, madness, death. Oddly enough, Stone's tortured artistic mission -- dispensing downers to a movie public famously addicted to escapism -- has its upside. He pours so much dramatic juice into the hemlock blender that folks go to his films, and official Hollywood...
Announcers, of course, were always the key. Play by Play, a rare multinetwork collaboration, brings together an all-star team of hosts (Jim McKay, Pat Summerall, Bob Costas, Curt Gowdy, Brent Musburger and Jim Lampley) and a Hall of Fame lineup of booth pioneers (Red Barber, Mel Allen, Lindsey Nelson) in clips and interviews. These men are full of anecdotes, good humor and the reverent glow of people who have witnessed incredible events. They seem like the happiest guys on earth...
...manages to lose it. Blunsten returns home where success surrounds him: his wife, Marcie, is a slick newscaster. His daughter, Peppermint, gets promoted every week in her job at Taco Parade: first to Golden Sombrero, then to Aztec Sun God and finally, to CEO. Even his pet, Yipper, wins fame and glory as a rescue dog in the Himalayas...
CIRK VALENTIN. The only animal in this circus is a graceful rat, but amazing acrobatics staged by Valentin Gneuschev of Flying Cranes fame make Moscow's latest export fun for the entire family. At Broadway's Gershwin Theater through Jan. 5, followed by a national tour...