Word: idol
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...office to drop off a manuscript. "I prayed for a quick death," she said later, "and forgot about it." But the world hasn't forgotten Harper Lee or her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The enigmatic, reclusive Lee, now 80, has never published another book and (like her idol, Jane Austen) has never married. She didn't cooperate with this biography, which relies on early interviews and diligent research, but the glimpses we get are tantalizing, like her description of her collaboration with Truman Capote on In Cold Blood: "It was deep calling to deep...
...unspoken message of these films was that a woman, especially a good woman, has to settle. Compromise was the minor key in a movie's final fanfare. Allyson lost out on a few good roles: Royal Wedding with her idol Astaire (because she was pregnant with her and Powell's child Ricky), Johnny Belinda and All About Eve (because MGM wouldn't loan her out to other studios...
...Runway (Bravo, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) returns for its third season, having smashed Bravo's ratings records by proving that you can spin a good yarn from threads. Elsewhere, designers, chefs, moviemakers--even preachers--are turning to reality TV to show their stuff. Think of these series as American Idol goes to trade school competitions not for neophyte performers looking to get famous but for professionals to advance their careers long after the cameras shut off. In the summer of America's Got Talent--which might more aptly be called America Can Balance a Sword on Its Face--these shows...
...godparents of this Geek Idol genre are Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, a producing duo operating under the name Magical Elves, who created Runway and its culinary spin-off, Top Chef, and also produced Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's movie-director search Project Greenlight. The Elves' projects share one philosophy: "We feel that the creative process is inherently dramatic and interesting to watch," says Cutforth...
...Whip smart and witty, eccentric and strikingly beautiful, had she been born in another age, Alice Roosevelt Longworth might have ended up a scientist, a writer or a particularly brutal judge on American Idol. Instead, she is remembered as one of the capital's most successful hostesses, a gifted gossip whose decades of sharing filet of beef and sly one-liners with statesmen and their wives led her to call herself "an ambulatory Washington monument...