Word: glamourize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest bastard of all turns out to be glamour-boy Robert Redford and Goldman should know, having worked with him on five films. Redford caused one of Goldman's projects to be cancelled because, after the phenomenal success of Butch Cassidy, he felt uneasy playing a character who was "kind of weak." During their fourth collaboration. All the President's Men, Redford refused to entrust Goldman with his home phone number. Then, out of jealousy for co-star Dustin Hoffman's character, he demanded that Goldman write in a love interest for him; and, in what Goldman justifiably terms...
...meeting between members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) and Black student leaders broke down last night after a member of the Seymour Society--a Black student group--accused "white leftists" of being less productive then Blacks because they were preoccupied with "glamour...
DIED. Gloria Swanson, 84, quintessential symbol of movie glamour for seven decades; of heart disease; in New York City. Early on, Swanson said, "I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody, from the studio gateman to the highest executive, will know it." Even when she was in eclipse, everybody did. She got her Hollywood start in Mack Sennett comedies, followed by a series of naughty sex farces. Ambitious for more varied roles, Swanson formed a production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair...
Many have cried that such a move was foul play, and that issues--the true purpose of the gathering--took a back seat to the glamour of the political pageant. And their argument is bolstered by the fact that the straw poll, originally scheduled as the last item on the weekend agenda, was moved earlier in the day, so the results could make the network news and the early Sunday papers...
...busy coke-abuse clinic. Even when Steve, 30, a Miami land salesman, was arrested for possession and found himself in jail overnight, it was, like, you know, a real trip. "I was with vagrants, drunks and car thieves," he says. "It was unreal, bizarre, like The Twilight Zone. "The glamour of outlawry, with the ante upped considerably, is also an attraction for many dealers and even some smugglers. Says a DEA official in Florida: "Breaking the law may not be just incidental to the white Americans involved in dealing cocaine. It may be essential...