Word: fame
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Fictional biography has one clear advantage over the real thing. Facts that are inaccessible to scholarship may simply be invented. On the other hand, a story of a made-up person can hardly rely on the fame or noteworthiness of its subject to attract and hold readers. So the writer who takes up this curious, hybrid genre assumes a mixed blessing: the freedom to fabricate reality in service of a goal that many may find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What...
...Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood in heroic silhouette. Cassie (Alyson Reed), Zach's former love, must mope and cower before getting to sing a strong What I Did for Love. Pretty soon this film has all the zing of The Iceman Cometh as performed by the Fame gang. Once upon a time--for one day only, Sept. 29, 1983--there was a perfect production of A Chorus Line. To celebrate its new eminence as Broadway's longest-running show, Bennett assembled some 330 Chorus Line veterans, radically rethought every number and provided a legendary theatrical event. Alas...
...California visitors for more than 60 years has been those big letters. Nestled among the slopes of Mount Lee, the 50-foot-tall Hollywood sign has become a Los Angeles landmark. Now the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce wants to have that sign, along with the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Hollywood Christmas Parade, protected as a trademark. The association claims exclusive licensing rights to any and all products bearing the name Hollywood that are either made or sold in California...
...breakup of an Air-India 747 off Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from Gander, Newfoundland, instantly killing the 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crew members on board. Then, just last week, Singer Rick Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet fame died with his fiancé and five band members in the crash of a chartered DC-3 in Texas...
Already an American classic, the painting Saying Grace is destined for even more fame. Last week Ronald Reagan, part of whose appeal lies in his ability to look around him and view the world in a Rockwell sort of way, proclaimed this picture his favorite one by the artist. The President also has a special fondness for a portrait Rockwell did in 1968 for Look magazine in a series on presidential possibilities: Ronald Reagan...