Word: idolize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This summer's other participants included Richard Thomas, raging through the title role in Howard Fast's bawdy, sermonic adaptation of his novel Citizen Tom Paine; Christopher Reeve, shrewdly underplaying a Barrymore-like matinee idol in a meticulous and uproarious revival of The Royal Family; and Bernadette Peters, trying out portions of Song and Dance, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical extravaganza that is booked to open in mid-September on Broadway...
...there were a competition for indelible images, this simple homage to Truffaut would be matched only by the sustained audience applause that greeted the final shot of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, another critical favorite. A young wife, her dream of eloping with a movie idol crushed, finds another dream born while gazing raptly at another wonderful picture. For the few privileged moments when Truffaut and Allen occupied center screen, Cannes declared that the film industry is only on loan to the merchants. It belongs, first and finally, to the magicians...
TIME reporters interviewed scores of teenage Madonna look-alikes. Miami's Joseph McQuay sought them out at Florida concerts and found them obsessed with their idol. "From their brand of cigarettes to the mole on each upper lip, on the night of the concert they were Madonna," marvels McQuay. At a Manhattan disco frequented by the star, New York Correspondent Cathy Booth was mobbed by tulle-bedecked teenagers venting their opinions of Madonna...
...parrot he discovers in a Flaubert museum in Rouen. The author borrowed a stuffed bird while he was writing A Simple Heart, in which a parrot is the last object of a gentle old woman's affection. Looking into its beady eye, Braithwaite suddenly feels close to his own idol. But, he ruminates, "the writer's voice--what makes you think it can be located that easily?" Sure enough, in Croisset, the village where Flaubert lived, there is another collection of memorabilia, and, yes, another parrot. Undeterred, the narrator sets out to determine which little bundle of feathers is authentic...
...color. We have ground the manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not theirs; & we should pay for it." Like Huck, Clemens remained true to his word on important matters: he paid for McGuinn's board until his 1887 graduation. McGuinn went on to become a mentor and idol of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall...