Word: glamourizer
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...superstars of rock music inhabit a looking-glass world made up of equal parts of glamour and innocence-plus roistering, perpetual motion. For this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jean Vallely plunged through the looking glass to spend eight nonstop days with Superstar Linda Ronstadt. She trailed the singer from Washington, D.C., to New York City, where she shared her hotel suite, and then back to the West Coast to visit the star on home ground in her Malibu beach house. "Rock stars don't know what the sun looks like," says Vallely, who would stay...
...passenger list for Voyage of the Damned is heavily booked with star types-Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Orson Welles, Ben Gazzara and Katharine Ross-along with an affecting newcomer, Lynne Frederick. All have been brought aboard to add glamour to the journey, but the effort is futile. The actors struggle, usually valiantly (Werner, Von Sydow, Mason), sometimes campily (Dunaway, Welles), but are ultimately undone...
Only natural causes could bring him down. The man with the leprechaun twinkle and the fireplug build was impossible to dislodge. A dinosaur in the age of the new politics, he proved far more durable than the glamour boys who had pronounced his methods dead...
...John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion had the clever notion of resetting this story in the rock world, where heady glamour and careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters...
...SOUR MESSAGE finally becomes clear: although the glamour has gone and the social thrust flagged, Belmondo can't get the criminal act out of his system. It may not show on his depressed face, but he needs the rush. How in the world Malle conceived the idea to weigh down such a juicy theme and such dashing actors with such a heavy moral remains unclear. But there it is. Le Voleur plays like the flip side to Malle's Lacombe, Lucien. Lacombe made us deal with a young man's value-free drift into collaboration with the Nazis--it showed...