Word: heros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-made man, and-he is perfection. He is my hero...
...Thank you Don we have the major leagues' newest hero with us here tonight and tell us Sulli -- was the ephus pitch you threw to George Foster n the bottom of the ninth with two out and a man on third for real or was it just a fluke...
Heaven Can Wait is supposed to be a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, a vintage '40s film that was based on a play entitled--you guessed it--Heaven Can Wait. The new film's script has been updated and altered a bit. For example, the story's hero has been changed from a prizefighter to a quarterback. Heaven Can Wait is clearly a vehicle for Beatty in more ways than one. He is billed as the co-writer, co-director, and naturally, the star. He apparently wanted to cash in on the success of his last effort, Shampoo...
...ebullient, almost Byronic self-absorption displayed in his latest performances is actually an amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women at once while ultimately infatuated with himself. Yet there is something strangely but undeniably likeable about a 40-year-old "naughty...
...visa was not accepted and he feared, as a Jew and socialist intellectual, forced repatriation to Germany. His essays were not collected and published until 1955. Thirteen years later they were translated into English and appeared under the title Illuminations. By that time, Benjamin had become a posthumous culture hero of Europe's new left...