Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real Elliott Gould was elsewhere that evening, but the two anxious urbanites were going through just the sort of encounter that Gould has faced in the burst of films ?from Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice to this summer's Getting Straight and Move?that have raised him to stardom in less than a year. There were even elements of this mood in M*A*S*H, the battlefront comedy that has become the most talked-about movie of 1970. Gould always seems to be caught up in social ?and sexual?tension. He embodies an inner need...
Married. Nancy Kwan, 31, sloe-eyed Eurasian actress who soared to stardom in The World of Susie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and David Giler, 26, Hollywood scriptwriter, whose most recent credit, if that is the term, is Myra Breckinridge; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony in Carson City...
...prompter in Marge's mind, popping biting retorts in her mouth about the jeopardy of fame, and chilling qualms in her heart about her love affair with a younger director (Len Cariou). With serpentine guile and horizontal campaigning, Eve slithers her way upward toward Margo's coveted stardom. However, Margo salvages what counts most: her lover, plus the hard-won grace to acknowledge that even unscrupulous youth must be served...
...conception of Boys, Crowley said, "I loved Virginia Woolf and it influenced me a lot-but the real inspiration was the Salinger story. 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.' And movies like All About Eve [Mankiewicz's melodrama about Hollywood stardom] and Hitchcock's Rope, which gave me the idea of using confined quarters as a dramatic device...
Died. Conrad Nagel, 72, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After making his debut on Broadway in 1918's Forever After, the handsome blond actor rose to stardom in the silent days, appearing in more than 150 films (Little Women, The Jazz Singer) between 1919 and 1932. His resonant baritone was perfect for talkies, and he continued to star in films while scoring Broadway hits in 1943's The Skin of Our Teeth and 1948's Goodbye, My Fancy...