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Another is about an actress who sleeps around and acts in ridiculously bad films until, in emulation of her idol, Rutger Fury, she moves to a foreign country, again to the delight of the populace. For wholesomeness, I wrote in a subplot about a Young Pioneer and his faithful tractor, and for the older folks I scripted some, steamy, explicit sex scenes...
...Emmy awards, to the 1980s, when he set box-office records at Radio City Music Hall, Liberace was a visual rather than an acoustic phenomenon. He charted a path followed by the unlikeliest of proteges, from Elvis Presley to Elton John and Boy George: the sex idol as peacock androgyne...
Recently Kavner, who plays Joe's mother in Radio Days, made an appearance at a publicity luncheon in Boston, where she described working for a man who has long been an idol of hers...
...boundaries of jazz. "Oh, yes, I'm tired," Dale croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub...
...interlude for the Hurricanes, was the time that the University of Florida literally lay down to let them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde. On the day after New Year's in 1984, Kosar passed a storied Nebraska team silly in the Orange Bowl, and Miami won its first national championship...