Word: idol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appropriately enough, Gallo is identified in the narrator's mind with a movie idol, with the cinematic image of a mobster. The narrator appears next at Joey's funeral and declares piously...
...When Intimidation caught on, Ringer had Funk & Wagnalls take over the distribution of his book. This was O.K. with Ringer's agent Henry Rearden, who turned out to be Ringer himself, hiding behind the name of a character in Atlas Shrugged, the ponderous novel by his right-wing idol, Ayn Rand...
Play it A gain, W oody Allen's comedy about the sexual hangups of poor Allan Felix, a schlemiel who spends most of his time daydreaming about Humphrey Bogart, his idol, and all the women he'd like to conquer. See Set Kaplan's review on page 2 of today's Crimson. In the W inthrop House Junior Common Room, December 12 and 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...loot to derive from what is, after all, a hangover of the '50s schmaltz. But Paul's smooth style is always in fashion somewhere, and with the raucous '60s behind him, he is even more successful than in his days as a teen-age idol. A glance at the young Anka hardly explains his durability in show business: could that chubby kid with the wet look who dated pubescent Mousketeer Annette Funicello really have been smart? Paul was the son of a Lebanese restaurateur in Ottawa, but he was only hungry for success...
Play it Again Sam. The Woody Allen play about the sexual hangups of poor Alan Felix, a schlemiel who spends most of his time day-dreaming about Humphrey Bogart, his idol, and all the women he'd like to conquer. In the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, December 4-7 and 11-13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...