Word: famed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Think what a monster he might have been--what a corrupt, misshapen brat might have emerged from these 35 years of glamour, political power, tragedy, money, fame and relentless, drooling hype. A grotesque egotist might have been the best-case scenario...
Diane Keaton was stepping out of Annie Hall fame into a more risque role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar: "She [says] she is insecure about her looks...[But] a listener can endure only a certain amount of this nonsense without contracting an enormous crush on Keaton. She marches sturdily into her sentences, pinafore starched and party shoes shining, then imagines that she hears a growl, stops uncertainly, scolds herself for being silly, collects herself and moves forward, uttering exhortations, and finally collapses, out of breath, on the far side of a not especially fearsome thought. She does not seem dithery...
Every new class, every new activity, every new person we meet is a fresh start. Anonymity does have a certain mystique. Look at the media frenzy over Primary Colors, simply because no one knew who the author was. You can keep my 15 minutes of fame; I think I'll stick with anonymity...
DIVORCING. RONALD PERELMAN, 53, acquisitive Revlon cosmetics billionaire, and PATRICIA DUFF, 42, Democratic Party fund raiser; in New York City; after 21 months of marriage. DIED. JULIET PROWSE, 59, leggy redheaded dancer who achieved fame in the 1960 movie musical Can-Can; of pancreatic cancer; in Holmby Hills, California. Raised in South Africa and trained as a ballerina, Prowse made worldwide headlines when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited the Hollywood set of Can-Can and denounced the dancing as indecent. After her film career petered out, she went on to star in a series of TV specials...
...underscores these songs, which, like "E-bow," are among the more successful on the album. "So Fast, So Numb" projects a convincing exasperation with a deluded second person, imploring "This is now! This is here! This is me!" "Electrolite" snidely comments on the slippery and ultimately minimal value of fame: "I'm Steve McQueen/I'm Jimmy Dean/You are the star tonight." That this refusnik sensibility might be the expression of the band's own attitude is teasingly suggested by the song's final line, which is also the final lyric on the album: "I'm outta here...