Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Sal Mineo, 37, babyfaced, onetime teen-age idol who earned the nickname "The Switchblade Kid" for his stage and cinema characterizations of young toughs on the rocky road to manhood; after being stabbed; in an alleyway outside his West Hollywood apartment, where he died gasping, unable to identify his assailant. The son of a Bronx coffin maker, Mineo started his career on Broadway at age eleven in The Rose Tattoo. In 1956 he won an Oscar nomination for Rebel Without a Cause, and an Emmy nomination for Dino. A second Oscar nomination came for his 1960 performance...
...forget the grainy documentary film sequence that shows Dr. Josef Mengele greeting new arrivals at Auschwitz? Handsome as a matinee idol in his uniform, he blithely chooses the men, women and children for genetic experiments. Those not gently nudged aside by his baton go more quickly to their deaths in the gas chamber...
...mouse becomes an idol: The Mouse God Multiple, a stack of geometric mice becomes a temple. Oldenburg jots down a progression on the drawings: "ziggurat/-pyramid/mouse". The mouse is real architecture too--it was used as a blueprint for a Maus Museum, erected in 1972 to house a collection of Oldenburg's objects, the precious common things that provide springboards for his imagination...
Parts of Education of the Girlchild--such as one section of swirling white-veiled figures mesmerized by the masked idol "Ancestress"--feel like ritual, reflections of the "primordial reality" Monk mentioned Saturday. Yet the total work is not the translation of primitive dance into modern forms. Monk seems to have happened on primitivism in the course of realizing her own sensibility. In the same way she happens on surrealism, fantastic images grounded in reality, and on the style of Oriental theater, the integration of gesture, music and decor...
...Giannini was already well on his way to becoming the brightest young stage star in Italy. In 1964 he played Romeo in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, then David Copperfield in an ambitious twelve-part television program, roles that made him a modest and rather reluctant matinee idol. He worked with Wertmuller for the first time in 1966 on a movie called Rita The Mosquito, which she directed under the name "George Brown." Two years later, Giannini starred in a Wertmuller play he had brought to Zeffirelli's attention. Zeffirelli staged it, Enrico Job did the sets...