Word: glitterati
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays and write nonfiction works. Of In Cold Blood, his horrific 1965 account of the murder of a Kansas family by two drifters, he boasted that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote was a gossipy, party-loving sybarite with a gift for self-promotion and TV talk-show repartee. In recent years, however, his productivity faltered and he struggled-as frequent news reports about his hospitalizations and drunken-driving arrests gave witness-with an addiction to drugs and alcohol...
...somehow, the mistaken notion has taken root, among both critics and the general public, that the private lives of the glitterati of the entertainment industry are off-limits, at least in terms of the respectable press. We're not counting National Enquirer junk--or the apologia, enjoyable as it often is, that comes out of p.r. magazines like People or Rolling Stone. We're talking serious, nuts and bolts journalism, the kind that will look, say, at the life of a John Belushi with the toughness with which a seasoned political writer will look at Richard Nixon. Perhaps because...
SENTENCED. Truman Capote, 59, author (In Cold Blood) and sardonic, falsetto voice of the glitterati; to three years probation and a $500 fine for drunken driving; in Southampton, N.Y. Capote had been driving with an expired out-of-state license, and the Long Island judge barred him from applying for a New York State driver's license for six months. The judge also directed the writer to continue alcoholic counseling. Said Capote: "I pleaded guilty to this thing to get it out of the way, even though I know I wasn't drunk...
...itself is now a precedent. This summer ABC is trying out a limited series called Eye on Hollywood, which will report on life among the glitterati. Last March, Cable News Network started a weekly series called Hollywood Journal. A syndicated show called Ebony Jet Celebrity Showcase, featuring profiles of black stars, premiered in 62 markets around the country in April. Andy Warhol, the celebrity's celebrity, palely presides over his new syndicated program, which since May has followed the frolics of the beautiful and the damned...
...making her most extensive tour ever in the Northern Hemisphere. She is also taking up President Reagan's offer to come-on-over-and-see-us-some-time. It will be her first foray to the brave new world of California, where for weeks the glitterati have been jockeying for gilded invitations. Yes, she is pleased to get out of dreary, drizzly London and into the sunshine, but the royal purpose remains the same: to strengthen ties among friends and show her subjects that the Crown is not merely an abstract symbol, but a kind, imperturbable and tireless...