Word: glitterati
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With this week's U.S. release of Do the Right Thing, the furor goes Stateside. Not since the Black Panthers cowed Manhattan's glitterati 20 years ago has there been such a virulent outbreak of radical chic -- or so many political-disease detectives ready to stanch the epidemic. A single issue of the Village Voice ran eight articles on the movie, with opinions running from raves to cries of "fascist" and "racist." A political columnist for New York magazine charged that Lee's film could undermine the New York City mayoral campaign of a black candidate. Everywhere, the film...
...Bateman, John Ritter), people named Moon and Dweezil Zappa. A sludge protest drew Dynasty's Linda Evans to Olympic, Wash. More recently, Dennis Weaver, Michael Landon and Robert Downey Jr. voiced their protest against offshore oil drilling at a rally in downtown L.A. And last weekend a gross of glitterati -- Diana Ross, Elton John, Sigourney Weaver -- joined world leaders in Our Common Future, a five-hour global telecast...
...clothing boutique. When ends didn't meet, "I'd rob stained glass out of homes that were being demolished and sell it." Later, at New York City's prestigious Parsons School of Design, Kelly would "sell other people their homework" to make tuition payments. He hung out with the glitterati at Studio 54. "I wanted to be somebody so bad," he sighs. But broke again, he dropped out. No designer would hire...
...People want to see and be seen," says the Billiard Club's co-owner Barry Renert. At M.K., one of New York City's trendiest night spots, the club's two tables are always occupied, as the glitterati take turns shooting and racking 'em up. In Chicago the equally hip Limelight has eight-ball tournaments, and at the new-wave Star Top Cafe clients can munch on soft-shell crab while waiting their turn. Even at old game dens, the pool surge is evident as the gentry mix with the proletariat. Says Richard Gaedt of Chicago's North Center Bowl...
...unspoiled waters off Turkey's Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Halicarnas, an enormous open-air disco, pumps music and shoots lasers until dawn. Ertegun, who was born in Istanbul and came to the U.S. as a boy, now owns a sumptuous villa in Bodrum where he entertains such glitterati as Mick Jagger and Oscar de la Renta...