Word: star
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Congratulations on your stunning concert-stage engagement with [country-star] Shooter Jennings in June. Oh God. That was not stunning. I had my back turned toward him and the stage. I never knew that he was proposing. I heard him talking, but I thought he was doing his regular stage thing. And then he started getting mad at me from the stage because he had to get to the next song. When I got there, he was so nervous the ring was shaking in his hand...
...focus on the long view is a consistent theme of his biography. He grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of a contractor father and a homemaker mother. After graduating from Syracuse University, Bing played nine seasons for the Detroit Pistons. During that time, he was the rare All-Star talent who understood that there was life after basketball. In the off-season, he worked as a bank teller and manager, grasping for his next career. In 1980 he formed Bing Steel and rode the wave of automotive-industry interest in cultivating a base of black and female suppliers...
Paul Aufiero is best described as a man-child. At 35, he lives with his mom, thinks that 10:46 p.m. is a little late to be heading out to a party, and sleeps with a poster of his idol, fictional New York Giants star Quantrell Bishop, above his bed. In writer-director Robert Siegel’s new movie “Big Fan,” Paul becomes the unlikely subject of an engaging and darkly humorous character study. Building on his work with 2008’s critically acclaimed “The Wrestler...
...conspiracy, visible only by glimpses of light filtered through the haze of pot smoke, bind fast the decadent and insular isle of Manhattan in Jonathan Lethem’s newest novel, “Chronic City.” The protagonist, Chase Insteadman—a former child star living off re-run residuals—serves as both one of a cohort of sleuths trying to untangle these webs and a vessel for the reader’s own desire to do the same. His seemingly infinite naïveté parallels our own; his paranoia is ours...
...earlier version of the Sept. 25 news article "STD Linked to Prostate Cancer" misspelled the last name of the lead author of the study. Her name is Jennifer Stark, not Jennifer Star...