Word: glamourizing
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...bold and brilliant one; a few see it as odd and maybe even foolish: Brown is either a visionary or months away from being just another Hollywood Jane with a development deal. Some see the new venture as the ultimate consummation of journalism's fascination with celebrity and glamour, of the notion that the news should be at least as entertaining as, say, a mediocre cartoon show. Even in a world where many news outlets are comparative backwaters amid larger, entertainment-oriented companies (like this magazine's parent, Time Warner), it is hard not to wonder whether some new threshold...
...commentator. Male television performers do have to shave (or formally grow a beard). But TV performers--the talent, as they are contemptuously known by TV producers--are actually encouraged to sulk and obsess about themselves. Most of them have the perquisites of being in charge--the higher pay, the glamour, the deference of the staff--without actually being in charge. They are pampered but powerless, like children. And the producers, who have the real power but not the atmospherics, and who usually work harder, also come to think of the on-air talent as children. The resulting incentive structure...
...dress. There are about a hundred of these changes in the course of the 12 minutes the film lasts, and every outfit is as banal as the last. It's meant (one presumes) to satirize the cultural pretensions of the upper reaches of the rag trade: Warhol with the glamour taken out. It makes for a very long 12 minutes...
...same day that Ball gave birth, by caesarean, to her second child, Desi Jr. (A daughter, Lucie, had been born in 1951.) They traveled to California just as the nation was turning west, in a hilarious series of shows that epitomized our conception of--and obsession with--Hollywood glamour. And when the nation began moving to the suburbs, so too, in their last season, did the Ricardos...
Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: codes of behavior, the very notion of "good acting." In their distinct ways--grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn T shirt--Fred Astaire and Marlon Brando represented the poles of 20th century popular culture. Astaire gave it class; Brando gave...