Word: idolizers
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...Maguire is being compared to DiCaprio--another serious actor turned teen idol following a big mainstream hit. But though audiences may cling to Maguire as Spider-Man, it's unlikely they'll embrace his quirky persona in standard leading-man roles. He simply isn't as warm as Tom Hanks or as dashing as Tom Cruise. "I just want to make good movies," says Maguire. "If there's a script I like with a character I like and a filmmaker I like, I would do the movie. I'm not really concerned about money. You could say I'm even...
...shock, anger and a cataclysmic sense of loss that went beyond one life to encompass the nation itself. A man who just weeks earlier was hotly disputing comparisons with French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen seemed in death to have bizarrely taken on the luster of his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy. His new window on a harder-edged Dutch future, disturbing to some and promising to others, slammed shut before it ever really opened...
...that discontented sigh came from a rock idol in some other country, you would figure merely that the hassle of having millions of adoring fans had finally become a bore. After all, amassing a fortune large enough to buy an island and indulging in enough random sex to overpopulate it can get a little wearing. But for Burmese artists and performers, fame is less about feast and more about frustration. Celebrity in this country is minor, yet it is only sustained through an endless series of personal and artistic compromises. Zaw Win Htut owns a cherry red Chevy Impala...
...film career did not help matters. Though profitable, his roles were always thoroughly digestible for a conservative public. More often than not they portrayed him as a rebellious figure eventually tamed by his love for a beautiful girl. Elvis was becoming little more than a syrupy teen idol. It was as if Sid Vicious had become David Cassidy. The record and film industries shamelessly exploited his bad-boy image and Elvis passively held on for the ride...
...Dave Matthews Band has become a musical institution, a college staple and an idol for guitar strummers everywhere. The radio is rife with imitators, with Five For Fighting being only the most obvious and stomach-churningly plaintive example...