Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week during the 1940s; of cancer; in Toledo. A five-foot-two brunette, LaRose began working as a cashier in New York City's Minsky's Theater at the age of 14 to buy herself clothes for school. She quickly graduated to the stage, then to stardom, and in her heyday paid as much as $2,500 per costume. After her retirement from the runway in 1958, she managed her own burlesque house in Toledo before hard times forced its conversion into an adult movie theater...
...McGovern's wife Eleanor, Kimelman flashed enough winning smiles and V signs at the TV cameras to have been the candidate himself. Gary Grant, with whom the darkly handsome Kimelman has occasionally been compared, might call the scene one in which a supporting actor makes his move toward stardom. Indeed, Kimelman's real-life business career has abounded with successful reaches for top billing...
...Tiny Tim, the Lebanese songbird who built stardom on a flutter and a falsetto, will be surprised to learn that he gets knots in his hair because he never combs or brushes it. It is perhaps more surprising that swarthy Tiny is heavily into beauty products. "He'd buy crates and crates of skin cream, and he would spend hours using it," writes his recently alienated wife "Miss Vicki," 20, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Other peeps into the private life of Herbert B. Khaury: "He has a fetish about food...
That encounter 18 years ago was the end of Hackman's slipping and sliding. Although he had never thought of acting before, he joined the Premise, an off-Broadway theater-not so much in quest of stardom as simply to get some meaning into his life. By last week, when he stood onstage in the Chandler Pavilion clutching his statuette, he had found both. He has become one of the best-liked of Hollywood professionals, a shambling, shirtsleeves type who actually uses words like "golly" and "gee" and is still married to his first wife after 14 years...
...Angeles, she flies to his bedside, and from that point on, they are inseparable. They go for walks, gambol in the snow, kiss a little. All that. But then things start going sour. Sherri becomes depressed by the constant touring, the gigs, the promotional hassles connected with folk-rock stardom. "There's nothing inside it to hang on to," she says. "Everyone should do their own number. There's enough hate around, right...