Word: stardom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...group of beautiful young girls enter a studio, all sharing dreams of glamour and world stardom. A stern Frenchwoman enters the room, and to their horror, the first words out of her mouth are: "Okay girls, off with your clothes, I want you in your underwear. Right now." This is not a scene from a bordello in the sex trade, but an annual event in Japan's new beauty queen factory. For the last 10 years, Ines Ligron has been ordering young Japanese women to strip, walk tall, free their inner woman and wear lots and lots of makeup...
...were working together years before they would ever publish anything in an economics journal. And their first steps on the path of academic stardom began on the east side of Harvard Yard...
...Oscar streaker, a moment of notoriety and humiliation. For Ferrell, the route to movie stardom...
...audiences that make them successful, à la Chevy Chase, or, like Jim Carrey, renounce them in pursuit of broader horizons. Ferrell not only doesn't chafe under the demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says Adam McKay, Ferrell's co-writer and director on Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Judd Apatow, director of The 40-Year Old Virgin and a producer...
Given some of the things that come out of his mind and mouth, there are those who find Ferrell's ascent to multiplex stardom somewhat mystifying. "When you look at some of the characters he creates," says McKay, "I mean, it's seriously bizarre that Will's a huge movie star." On the page, most of Ferrell's characters seem designed to give audiences headaches--or a sexually transmitted disease. "I do really enjoy messing with people," says Ferrell of such politically incorrect roles as over-the-top sexists (Ron Burgundy, Chazz Reinhold in Wedding Crashers), fetishists (Big Earl...