Word: idolize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years that followed, the new Rubinstein poured wondrous cascades of music into all the concert halls of Europe. Sol Hurok brought him to America in 1937, and at 50, Rubinstein became a new idol. Everywhere, audiences clamored fqr him, and the critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns...
...pace, such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey the resigned air of specialists summoned too late to be really useful. Mod sex appeal is dragged in by Shirley Eaton, fisticuffs by Hugh O'Brian. And, unlikely as it seems, there is Teen Idol Fabian, quaffing a lethal dose of poison immediately after singing a song. Fabian is the first of Indians' victims, and the luckiest. For him, the end comes quickly...
...father owned in York. At 19, he played trumpet with a regimental army band stationed in Cyprus, took a correspondence course in composition. Later, he formed the John Barry Seven and made his calculated entrance into the movies by playing the accompaniment for a rock-'n'-roll idol named Adam Faith. Barry's first film score, Beat Girl, led to an invitation to doctor the score for Dr. No. He did it without ever seeing the film...
COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Two-time Oscar Winner Luise Rainer and one time Matinee Idol Ramon Novarro are the oldtime guest stars...
...father, Danielle Darrieux as mother, and Jean Marais as seducer make their roles a wistful tribute to the faded glories of boudoir farce. But Friend will be remembered, if at all, as the movie debut of France's 21-year-old rock-'n'-roll idol, Sylvie Vartan. Playing a yé-yé girl who won't say no, blonde Sylvie is a mildly accomplished comedienne with two oddly spaced front teeth that give her a look of elfin corruption. On the screen, despite a paltry script, she twists her diminutive curves into every parent...