Word: glamourize
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...winners' names announced with all the pizzazz of numbers being called at a deli counter. But last night the stars were out in their fancy frocks, as if to declare that, in a recession that looks to be heading south toward Black Plague territory, America needs both the elevated glamour of movie celebrity and the pert, reassuring familiarity of TV actors...
...Edie Adams, 81, starred in two Broadway shows (Wonderful Town and Li'l Abner), played the Fairy Godmother to Julie Andrews' Cinderella in a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical for TV and hawked Muriel Cigars ("Why don't you pick one up and smoke it some time?"). She lent a pert glamour to the TV shows of immortal zany Ernie Kovacs, whom she married in 1956 and lost in a car crash in 1962. Lois Nettleton, 82, was married to another midcentury comedy genius, radio spieler Jean Shepherd; but her forte, when she got the chance to display it, was in elevated...
...named "Mother of the Year" in April 1997 by the National Mother's Day Committee for her dedication to providing "children with a safer, healthier world." She was also named Glamour magazine's Woman of the Year...
...Dominant Betty Dances With Whip. Garbo, in Hollywood, had Irving Thalberg, the prince of MGM, as her boss and protector. Bettie had Irving Klaw. Calling himself the "King of the Pinups," Irving and his sister Paula ran a seedy Manhattan emporium called Movie Star News, which peddled celebrity glamour shots to the public and specialized photos and loops to a more discriminating clientele. A brunette Betty Grable type who wanted to be Bette Davis, Bettie couldn't get a job as a Broadway actress. But on East 14th Street she was the star of Movie Star News, the big fish...
...while the major studios hope for a boost, there are other observers who - glitz and glamour of the Globes aside - question the veracity of the HFPA. Numerous entertainment writers have challenged the group's diversity, its members' qualifications as journalists, and their attentiveness in screening every major contender. There's also the charge that the group votes based on star caliber, and not film quality - celebrating the A-list more than encouraging the B-list. The journalists may be foreign, but the agenda seems strictly Hollywood...