Word: idolator
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...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...
Appropriately enough, Gallo is identified in the narrator's mind with a movie idol, with the cinematic image of a mobster. The narrator appears next at Joey's funeral and declares piously...
...When Intimidation caught on, Ringer had Funk & Wagnalls take over the distribution of his book. This was O.K. with Ringer's agent Henry Rearden, who turned out to be Ringer himself, hiding behind the name of a character in Atlas Shrugged, the ponderous novel by his right-wing idol, Ayn Rand...
Play it A gain, W oody Allen's comedy about the sexual hangups of poor Allan Felix, a schlemiel who spends most of his time daydreaming about Humphrey Bogart, his idol, and all the women he'd like to conquer. See Set Kaplan's review on page 2 of today's Crimson. In the W inthrop House Junior Common Room, December 12 and 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...loot to derive from what is, after all, a hangover of the '50s schmaltz. But Paul's smooth style is always in fashion somewhere, and with the raucous '60s behind him, he is even more successful than in his days as a teen-age idol. A glance at the young Anka hardly explains his durability in show business: could that chubby kid with the wet look who dated pubescent Mousketeer Annette Funicello really have been smart? Paul was the son of a Lebanese restaurateur in Ottawa, but he was only hungry for success...