Word: hype
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while there it was either me or the Ayatullah on the covers of national magazines," she says with no pleasure. "It was excessive hype." Of course, the line between excessive hype and just the right amount of hype is difficult to draw in show business. But the excitement Streep stirs whenever she appears on a screen or a stage has nothing to do with puffery. It is a real, if sometimes clumsily expressed, response to an artist of rare skill and presence. Film Maker Robert Benton, who directed Streep in Kramer and a thriller called Stab, to be released next...
...singer born in 1935, Pavarotti. "I am very happy for Luciano, he is like a brother to me. But it is not my character. I like my privacy. I enjoy singing, I enjoy creating something with my voice. But when it is finished, it is finished." The great American hype machine is wasted on Mirella Freni...
...Roots" and "Roots II" or his analysis of the high theatrics of "Sixty Minutes"--with all its supposedly real life drama as Rather hones in on all the world like a '30s prosecutor--manage to put television's strange short-term memory into some sort of historical perspective. The hype and the emotions television elicits from its unwitting audience seem all the more insidious. He even includes in this volume a brilliant piece. "What We Do in the Dark," in which television becomes one of our cultural sexual artifacts, and television watching (alone, in the dark, vaguely guilty), a horizontal...
...drains money away from such scientifically important unmanned space projects as the joint European-American mission over the poles of the sun and the once-in-a-lifetime probe of Halley's comet. Democratic Senator William Proxmire, long a foe, noted, "I've never seen so much hype in my life. We're launching a truck into space, and everybody keeps saying it's the Second Coming...
Most actresses would have taken pride in the daft charm that Lange brought to her debut in King Kong; few actresses could have gracefully endured the Kong hype to which she was subjected. "I was naive," she says, "and it brought me pain. For a while I lost control over my own life. I didn't work for two years." So when Bob Rafelson walked into a motel room in North Carolina, where Lange was appearing in a threadbare sex comedy, she was ready to show him what moviegoers had missed. Rafelson recalls that he found "an incredibly sensual...