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...Billy Idol...
...manicured silver mane crowns Jack Gilford's head, but he tugs an imaginary forelock to his hit playwright wife. As for Joyce Van Patten, endlessly dutiful homemaker to a fabulous screen idol, she scoops up her lines with the hilariously harried rush of a mother on a late laundry...
Speaking from the pulpit, Father John McAlpine warned the parishioners of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Auckland that many New Zealanders worshiped "a false idol, a leather ball." The priest was referring to the national passion for rugby...
...warily, and even dubiously, at the surrounding petitioners and sycophants. Other subjects were all too clearly shaping their own legends. Gangster Albert Anastasia must have commandeered a photographer's studio for a week to achieve his straw-hatted, natty, top-lit look, which is that of a matinee idol portraying a gangster. Perhaps the best pure photography in the show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging...
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...