Word: legendizing
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...August, when it was announced he would be leaving Disney, Katzenberg had said he would "take a 60-day pit stop ... to rest and recharge." But for this mighty mover, whose relentless vim is both a legend and a curse, two months of R. and R. would be cruel and unusual punishment -- like having to watch Cabin Boy nonstop for a year. Geffen says Katzenberg called him "the day it hit the fan at Disney," and floated the idea of a partnership with him and Spielberg. "It started with 'Wouldn't it be great?"' says Geffen, "but it became real...
...game was unexceptional except for the play of Busquets. The senior scored an extraordinary eight goals in the game. It was the best single-game performance by a Crimson poloman since legend Jeff Zimmerman scored nine against Brown two years...
...amounts to a return to the blues. But there are no elder statesmen to be heard on Young's new album, Sleeps with Angels, or on Clapton's From the Cradle. These are two paragons, playing and singing with sidelong majesty, determined not to let themselves get ossified into legend...
...white, college- educated men would have done it (about 80%) and so few blacks (51%)? Skip Long, a 33-year-old African American from Raleigh, North Carolina, thinks his race's discomfort with oral sex may owe much to religious teaching and the legacy of slavery: according to local legend, it was something slaves were required to do for their masters. Camille Paglia is convinced that oral sex is % a culturally acquired preference that a generation of college students picked up in the '70s from seeing Linda Lovelace do it in Deep Throat, one of the first - and last...
These bizarre juxtapositions, commingling the solemn and the sordid, helped forge the legend of Big Brother as newspaper columnist. In the words of a 1933 ad slogan, WINCHELL HE SEES ALL HE KNOWS ALL. With its rightful emphasis on the power-mad side of Winchell's persona, Gabler's biography validates Burt Lancaster's chilling portrayal of gossipmonger J.J. Hunsecker in the 1957 film The Sweet Smell of Success. (In real life, Winchell, in cinema noir fashion, had his daughter Walda carted off to an asylum in a straitjacket in paternal rage against an unsuitable marriage.). The same haunting sense...