Word: idol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...universally regarded as the best player in the game. His annual income: an estimated $500,000 from salary, bonuses, endorsement fees and his many business interests. At 29, he has played on all three of Brazil's world-championship teams, a feat that has made him a national idol in a land where futebol is revered and a welcome escape from an often dreary existence. Pelé, who plays inside left, scored one goal and set up two in the victory over Italy. Brazil as a three-time winner gained permanent possession of the cup, although, of course...
Lili Smith, London's favorite dance-hall entertainer, is the seductive idol of the British soldiers on leave from World War I. Secretly, she is a German spy named Schmidt. She flirts across the movie screen in sheer tights and ruffles, a rose between her teeth, gaiety masking her embittered spirit. The role seems precisely tailored for Dietrich. Instead it will be played by Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews has in fact gone the English dance-hall route before-and flopped miserably-in one of Hollywood's most expensive bombs. a multimillion-dollar loser called Star. On looks, anyway...
...cars and leads a caravan of "Best Setters" on boozy all-night rounds of the pubs. Threatened with suits for breach of promise as well as for damages resulting from a street brawl, Georgie passes off the "unfortunate happenings" as the price he must pay for being a pop idol. He claims to have dated more than 1,000 eagerly willing "Georgie girls," a fact that caused one local sportswriter to note: "Part of the enjoyment of the kill is the chase, and George is missing the fun of the chase...
...idol of America's young, Lyndon Johnson nonetheless seems to have a sneaking sympathy for some of their modes. He has not yet taken to bell-bottoms or lovebeads, but he did show up at the Middleburg Hunt meet in Virginia wearing his curly silver-gray locks in what could only be described as a Woodstock...
Pathology of Obsession. Truffaut dedicates the film to his idol, Jean Renoir, and The Mississippi Mermaid begins with scenes from Renoir's 1938 masterpiece La Marseillaise. There are many more affinities here, though, with the work of another Truffaut deity, Alfred Hitchcock. As Julie, Catherine Deneuve has all the frosty, mysterious elegance of such typical Hitchcock heroines as Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly. Jean-Paul Belmondo, as Louis, has the distinctively empathetic star quality that Hitchcock has always favored in his leading...