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Indian Matinee Idol Dev Anand plays a guide ensnared by a wealthy client's wife, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who is an accomplished snake dancer. He becomes Rosie's manager, and after her debut at a local high school, fame and fortune are theirs. The guide then turns to gambling and debauchery, goes to jail for forgery, ultimately wins redemption when some gullible provincials mistake him for a holy man. Later, the false sadhu fasts and dies a hero after telling a TV interviewer that life has been mostly Rosie...
...young artist's idol was the lusty illustrator, N. C. Wyeth; one fateful day the grand old man telephoned him. "It was like the Lord Jehovah calling," says Hurd...
...master strain in his character is the rhetorician. Platform speeches and leading articles flow from him almost against his will. At dinner he talks and you can hardly tell when he leaves off, quoting his one idol, Macaulay, and begins his other, Winston Churchill...
...years ago, Soviet Poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, 32, was the idol of rebellious Communist youth. Sharing a platform with Evgeny Evtushenko and other young poets, Rozhdestvensky declaimed against the cult of Stalinism...
...York, toured with Cootie Williams' Orchestra. Then in 1945 he suffered the first of a series of breakdowns that have kept him in and out of mental hospitals ever since. He formed his own trio in 1949 and was soon the dominant pianist in jazz and the idol of a generation of followers. Then he cracked up and spent 1951-53 in a hospital. He rarely played well again...