Word: star-struck
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...Lyons thrived as a night person and predawn writer, turned out six columns (and about 6,000 words) a week. He remained the star-struck son of a Rumanian Jewish immigrant and chucked a law career in 1934 when the New York Post finally bent to years of entreaties and made him a columnist (at $50 a week). His refusal to monger scandal earned him the trust that the famous withheld from more waspish types like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen. On George Bernard Shaw's 90th birthday, he granted Lyons an exclusive interview. Ernest Hemingway's wife...
...presence of twelve big-name athletes sent Rotonda citizenry into autograph apoplexy, and an unofficial school holiday allowed swarms of children to join the athlete hunt. Commercial sponsors flew in a small army of star-struck clients and customers to hobnob with the captive athletes at a poolside cocktail party. With the arrival of Howard Cosell, the stage was finally fully populated for a genuine pseudo event...
...These rich are very star-struck," observed a technician, trying to ride herd on a crowd that included Mrs. James Van Alen, Mrs. Claiborne Pell, Mrs. T.J. Oakley Rhinelander and Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Buchana.n...
...evening news time approached, star-struck CBS executives in New York, Washington and Los Angeles began clearing their throats and straightening their ties. Many of them had already been pressed into service behind the cameras because of a strike against CBS by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents cameramen, audio and lighting men and other technicians. But now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members...
Here he is, a star-struck Nebraska kid who still keeps his nose pressed against the show-biz windowpane, almost innocently eager to talk to all the big celebrities on his very own show. It amazes him that they even remember his name, let alone want to be seen with him; yet he harbors an uncomfortable disdain for the shallowness he finds among so many "stars." He thinks of himself as an actor-writer-comic; yet he works best as a ringmaster of conversation heightened by the prodding of an acute mind?free associating, Perelmanesque, almost surrealistic. He does battle...