Word: stardom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movies the posters highlight. For example, the original poster for "The Duke Is Tops" (1938) features Ralph Cooper's name emblazoned boldly across it and Lena Horne's name in the fine print at the bottom. In the re-release of the film after Lena Horne achieved stardom in "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather," the film is retitled "The Bronze Venus," and the posters focus on her now marketable name and face...
...Houston and the ever tactful Costner generate much sexual heat. But the shy, tentative quality of their relationship is appealing, and the sense she projects of a woman befuddled by sudden stardom has authentic sweetness. You can't say Houston storms the screen, but she is winsome and vulnerable -- a lady taking a first step on what may turn out to be a well-paced long...
...hours at a soldout Sanders Theater, she quelled any doubt over the success of her comeback. That this triumph occured at Sanders is appropriate--nearly 30 years ago Baez gave her first non-club performance at the elegant Harvard auditorium, one of the first shows that launched her to stardom in the sixties and seventies...
...BOTTOM LINE: The once alternative rock band retreats from stardom with a downbeat, ruminative album...
Perhaps the only thing that keeps The Screaming Trees from broader stardom is their anything-but-poster-boy appearance. The Conner boys probably weigh in at 500-plus pounds. Drummer Barrett Newman never looks too cool thrashing his parted afro coif. Gravelly voiced and stationary frontman Mark Lanegan stares blankly into the lights, oblivious to fanatics rushing about and pawing him. His self-conscious exhortation, "Narcotics. Do 'em. Share 'em. Love each other," was acknowledged by laughter from the crowd...