Word: glamourizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galloping inflation has robbed some glamour from the phrase "alltime box-office champ"-in real dollars, Gone With the Wind is still No. 1-but even these days, a projected worldwide gross of $400 million is decent money. So why the boom in so many movies? And why now? Spielberg, the 34-year-old boy who wove the magic carpet of E. T. (as well as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark, all among the ten top grossers in movie history), sees a simple explanation: "A good film is kidnaped by its audience...
...opened its doors on New Year's Eve, 1919, the staff unrolled a long crimson carpet down to Hollywood Boulevard, then a dusty lane, where lines of limousines deposited their elegant passengers. As the silent movie era gave way to the talkies, and Hollywood's business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where Rudolph Valentino married Actress Jean Acker and spent his honeymoon. The Garden of Allah, which opened with an 18-hour party, was a haven for writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley...
...them to Beverly Hills and Malibu. Left behind is the shell-streets still hugged by low buildings, as in some abandoned Midwestern downtown. Yet, even today, the name Hollywood retains its mystical appeal. In a sense the name and the place diverged long ago-the name symbolic of faded glamour; the place filled with the shiftless, the criminal and the crazy...
...flip side of the fame game. We're conditioned to cope with failure, but there are no platitudes for dealing with success. Seven years had passed since Rocky. Panic and fear set in. I used those emotions to get back to the person I was before all the glamour and notoriety. Rocky is a once-in-a-lifetime coming together of self and character." But now that they are together, Stallone realizes he may never leave his alter ego entirely behind. "I'm in a shell that will never incubate to the point of hatching, and I have...
DIED. Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, 60, former "Glamour Girl No. 1" of New York café society; of cancer; in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. An heiress at twelve and debutante of the year at 17, Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the '40s as her dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said...