Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE RICHARD M. NIXON, little Georgie dreams of trains passing in the night. Georgie's train, Broadwaybound, will whirl him breathlessly on to stardom, if only he can catch hold of its handlebars. In his passion to board the train, Georgie plays a politician's game; brash and overeager, he lets his ambitions run roughshod over personal relationships. An act and a half and one wife later, metamorphosed into Broadway actor/composer/producer George M. Cohan, he pleads his success: "I'm not just on that train, I own it," he says...
...were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze...
Raised in Cleveland, Kubacki has a midwestern openness which is not really simple or naive, although most Easterners would see it as such. For instance, he places Harvard on a much higher plane than high school or big football colleges--a place to learn from other people, somewhere where stardom and self-centeredness have no place and no meaning...
...self-hate, which is here one Hemingway hating another, is crucial. Some of the most ugly and malicious acts imaginable are acted out by Hemingways on Hemingways. And why do they hate each other. It's hard to fell, unless they've jealous of each other's success. Stardom seems to be the thenic here Hemingway could be a TV personality except for the few matador cliches and sexual puns thrown in and stardom is a tired subject...
Dreyfuss amused himself by dating up any available women who happened to sail by. Duddy Kravitz had just opened to excellent reviews, and apparently everyone on the island had seen American Graffiti. Dreyfuss stood ready to enjoy all the perks of movie stardom, and would seize an assistant director's megaphone to pitch woo across the water. "You know why I get so many dates?" he told the envious Spielberg. "Because I have a 40-ft. face...