Word: gorgeousity
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...Superman," whispers the little kid sitting next to you as popcorn butter drips from his chin to his dungarees. But on the screen, the Man of Steel is neither stopping a runaway train, nor punching out bank robbers. He's in bed with a gorgeous woman, worrying about things that have nothing to do with truth, justice, or the American way. Superman II is more than just another adventure for our favorite hero. In addition to saving the planet, and perhaps the universe, he confronts his own past, throws a dinner party for two at his North Pole bungalow...
...listening to." As he strides off, a truck driver leans from his window in appreciation of a shapely woman crossing the street, small earphones pressed to her blond tresses. The driver shouts to her: "I know you can't hear me, but I think you're gorgeous!" She may never get the message...
...publisher who would hire him as editor, but fortunately for him every one he wrote to turned him down flat. One person who encouraged him was his bride, Lila Bell Acheson, now 91, the sister of a Macalester classmate. "I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea," she later recalled. They mailed out thousands of subscription appeals just before their wedding. When they returned from their honeymoon to Greenwich Village in Manhattan there were 1,500 responses...
...Hollywood need not be New York, or Marin County, or any where. The art industry is a state of mind - a gorgeous hallucination dreamed by a few inventive writers, ambitious directors, daring producers and caring studio bosses. It is a dream that can still seize the world's imagination on a screen. And it is not a new dream. In 1919, when D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks deserted the studios to form United Artists, one executive declared: "The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum." That wasn...
...audiences begin to buzz, like crickets waiting for dusk. "Where is she? How does she look? Has she lost weight?" Only when she has been onstage for five or ten minutes, do the whispers stop and the answers become clear: in her first stage role, Elizabeth Taylor looks beautiful, gorgeous, radiant. In a word, sensational. "I'm on a high," she admits. "I have a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of doing something useful in my life." Raising her shoulders in a kind of happy shiver, she adds: "And the applause is wonderful...