Word: persona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fellow performers often giggled at the persona, but they liked the man. Said Shirley MacLaine: "Lee's a hoot. He always gives a good show." Edie Adams concurred: "He was outrageous when outrageous wasn't cool. He was a little kid and nice to be around, on or off the stage." He often suggested that he enjoyed special spiritual grace, and some fans concluded he had faith- healing powers. But when he died at home last week after a brief hospitalization, he was best known as a synonym for glorious excess. After an aborted attempt in 1958 at a button...
Gene Kelly in The Pirate, Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year, Jeff Daniels in The Purple Rose of Cairo -- each played an actor forced to project his romantic persona into real life. There are few things funnier or more touching than the sight of a performer's image slipping down around his knees while he tries to yank it into place before anyone notices he is only human...
...premise for The Golden Child, the first of what will be a long series of "Eddie Murphy Productions," is the year's silliest. In his contrived script, screenwriter Dennis Feldman puts Murphy's wisecracking persona up against a story that combines a sappy romance with the classic Spielberg formulas...
North is now persona non grata at the White House. Last Wednesday he surrendered his pass, and the next morning was ignominiously turned away at the gate. His office has been sealed by the FBI. If it is established that North was behind the arms sales, he may be prosecuted for violation of the Arms Export Control Act, which requires congressional notification of all American arms transfers. A friend of North's recalls that the Marine often joked about the possibility of being jailed or court-martialed. For Ollie North, it was all in the line of duty...
...created a stage persona more pathetic than Woody Allen, more whiny than The Pathological Liar and about as bizarre as Sid Vicious. He makes it clear from the start that he's a geek, a psycho, a loser, and that we should laugh...