Word: offscreen
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...there," the filmgoer can believe, "me as I'd love to look, dare to act, hope to be." And for kids, always looking for lessons in moral etiquette, young actors can become the arbiters of glamour. Their bodies are temples to which anyone may bring offerings. Brat Packers' offscreen exploits fulfill a legend that fits Hollywood's melodramatic taste and tempo. They run hard, punish themselves and expect to live forever...
...actresses such as Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse have played this fascinating courtesan. Several incidents in Garbo's own life led her to take the role: her own sister Alva died of tuberculosis and she suffered from similar physical ailments. And Marguerite's emotional self-containment curiously parallels the offscreen distance Garbo carefully maintained from both of her eager costars, Taylor and Barrymore...
...subject of a four-night, eight-hour documentary series on PBS. Based on Daniel Yergin's Pulitzer-prizewinning book (with Yergin himself serving as principal commentator), the series uses all the familiar tricks of the TV historian's trade -- old photos and film clips, offscreen narration combined with onscreen talking heads -- to make the subject come alive. Which it does marvelously: The Prize is TV's equivalent of a great read...
...last names, please, for the king and queen of Manhattan's glitterati. For a decade they were the wax-doll couple atop a cake at the wedding of popular art and social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York was their movie set, Madison...
...Voice offscreen: Easy, Mr. President. Some 30 million potential voters are zapping past right this minute, waiting for an answer...