Word: idolizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENGAGED. Donny Osmond, 20, squeaky-clean teen idol and entertainer who with his sister is host of one of television's most successful variety shows, The Donny and Marie Show; and Debra Glenn, 19, a freshman at Brigham Young University; after a proposal in a Mormon temple in Honolulu, where Donny is making a movie...
...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...
...retreated into a psychopathic silence, and Jimmy J., expelled from college, is telling her the plot of Rebel Without a Cause. It does little to perk up her spirits. Undaunted by the misery that he has caused, this idiot climbs on his motorcycle and heads for his idol's haunts in California. Doubtless he toils even now in the movie industry, approving projects like this...
...analysis. Rehearsals became long and exasperating. They argued about the meaning of different positions. He: "It's arabesque, it's position." She: "No, it can be different in every ballet." There was also some competitive brain-picking. Gelsey sought the secrets of the Kirov's impeccable style; Misha, whose idol is Balanchine, wanted tips on the master's techniques...
...destitution and its unstable political situation, India is the only place where he could best develop his art. Everywhere are indications of ancient religions and the traditions. Sacred cows walk the streets, shrines are at the feet of Bombay streetlamps, most homes have puja (worship) rooms and an idol of the household deity. People are named after characters in the Vedic scriptures...