Word: idolizers
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...date has, shall we say, limited resonance; it is the day on which James Dean, the sometime teen-age movie idol and potential rival to Brando, died in an auto accident. This movie, which is about how the news of his untimely demise affected a college student and his friends, has even less resonance-except, perhaps, as the most ridiculously bad movie in recent memory...
...Suddenly I found myself a pop idol... In high school, I had already experienced being underrated for my lack of superficial hipness... I always tried to follow my own guiding light and yet people's perceptions of me swung from being totally unhip to being awesomely...
Look for surprise starter Mark Rodriguez in nets for Yale and freshman ice idol Paul Castraberti to do most of the Eli's scoring. But most of all, look for some kinda battle between two teams, one suddenly proud, the other searching for its pride...
...PLOT CONCENTRATES on the problems of a Milwaukee baker (played by Wilder) who must compete with the screen idol Rudolph Valentino for the admiration of his young wife Annie (Carol Kane). To prove himself to her and also to escape the confinement of his job, Wilder changes his name to Rudy Valentine and moves to Hollywood to compete for the "World's Greatest Lover" role in a studio ad campaign. The couple's proximity to the real Valentino is too much for Annie, who leaves her husband to track down her dream lover at Paramount Studios...
...formidably high. What does she like? Certain words recur: clarity (for Gelsey Kirkland), purity (for Baryshnikov), amplitude (for Farrell and Peter Martins). If Croce's criticism has a godfather, it is George Balanchine, who, after all, reinvented classical ballet and made it American. If she has an idol among dancers, it is Baryshnikov, though she thinks that A.B.T. misuses his genius...