Word: heartthrob
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Hollywood hit Harvard for the second time this semester, as heartthrob actor Tom Cruise shot the first scenes of his new movie on Saturday morning outside Harvard Yard...
Superman is dead; comics buyers are lining up around the block. Malcolm X has found a huge new following years after his death. And then there's the new heartthrob, Dracula. What's a normal living...
...invited to be a regular on SNL. It was the turning point of his career. His Fernando character set a new indoor speed record for trajectory from late-night sketch to universally understood wisecrack. Today people still beg him to flash the insincere smile of the fading, macho heartthrob of the '50s and intone, "You know, dahlings, it is better to look good than to feel good." By Monday morning, from junior high cafeterias to white-shoe law firms, "Excuuuse me" had been replaced by "You look maaahvelous." He also struck gold with Willie, the nerdy messenger with a knack...
Then there's J. Danforth Quayle, the nation's first teenage heartthrob vice president. To counter his widely perceived boyishness early in 1989, Quayle dyed the hair just above his ears gray. This, of course, was to impart an image of distinguished, rather than school-boy, good looks. But when news of his hair-graying plot came out, Danny just looked ridiculous...
...response to his remarks in the U.S. and France. Many American women were shocked by the actor's blase attitude toward unsavory events from his past. Washington Post columnist Judy Mann urged a boycott of Depardieu's films in an article headlined HOW DO WE HANDLE THE RAPIST-TURNED-HEARTTHROB...