Word: idol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yesterday, though, was Mark Henry Day at Soldiers Field. Not like Mary Throneberry Day at Shea when all the folks from Canarsie come out to cheer their idol. More like put it down on the calendar, fly a flag, call your friends and have a party because it is Mark Henry...
...Italian Stallion: Rocky was a fluke, a rough-cut diamond of a film. By Stallone's inability to break out of the mold of the illiterate boxer, we perceive that the man cannot act any role but that of Sylvester Stallone. He is doomed to be the matinee idol, the star of B-movies like Nighthawks or, God forbid, Rocky III. He is just another fighter who put too much into his first match...
...balm of Gomorrah, and your sitcoms are in violation of all that is funny. And you, O elders of cathode, you lusteth after false profits." And the three elders saith unto the Lord God: "Forgive us, O Lord, but we must make offerings to the false idol Nielsen, which is an hungry beast. Give us but a sign, a word, a story idea, that we may please thee and the 2,300 houses of the children of Nielsen." And then the Lord God spoke unto them: "To you, CBS, I ordain that you shall tell of the holy mission...
Diamond is unique among pop stars in that he projects not a scintilla of sexual danger; but here he is required only to be a dutiful son, husband (twice), father and pop idol. With the help of Lucie Arnaz as Neil's girlfriend, and Laurence Olivier (who really must stop play ing Jews and Nazis) as his father, the movie plods along earnestly, endlessly - schmaltz in three-quarter time. Yet in its elephantine way, The Jazz Singer may attract much of the Rocky crowd, and for the same reasons. It recalls simpler days and sweeter movies; it does...
...most alive, because it is where Jake (Robert De Niro) lives, where he can do battle on equal terms, playing by hard men's rules. It is where Jake's life finally achieves meaning when he wins the title and is embraced by his idol, Joe Louis -and where the paradigmatic club fighter loses the bout, the title and several quarts of blood in his 1951 match with the stylish Robinson. Indeed, Jake has lost everything but the pride that propels him over to the new champ's corner to boast, "You never knocked me down...