Word: glamourized
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...star-obsessed culture, Rowley is a healthy reminder that it's often people who shun the limelight--strong-willed people with more guts than glamour--who force themselves to step up and speak out when everyone else is keeping quiet. She dresses simply and wears large spectacles that have a habit of sliding down her nose. She takes her lunch to work every day and often arrives long before any of her co-workers. "She goes the extra mile on everything," says Larry Brubaker, a retired agent and former colleague. "Coleen always looks stressed. She is very high energy...
Bombay Dreams is a star-is-born tale of an actor from the slums who finds love, glamour and corruption in Bollywood. Lloyd Webber is selling it as something totally new, which London theater could certainly use. "The West End desperately needs new writers," he says, "yet it's all going on in Asia, where these film musicals get a huge audience. I hope that Rahman will be the sort of composer to make young people want to write for theater, because his rhythms and melodies are so exciting...
...mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...
...much later after I entered the university that I realized that journalists were not well paid,” he says. “From the outside, you thought it was one of those glamour jobs because you see these guys on TV well dressed...Then you see these guys who graduated 10 years ago and didn’t have a car [or were] dressed shabbily...
...stood at the magazine rack for the last time, preparing to buy the Glamour that would give rise to my last column, the covers of less popsicle-bright mags called out to me, or better yet the distant memory of a good book that I’ve put of reading...