Word: stardom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...self-described “movie buff,” had his own taste of stardom this week—a mini-movie he made on the workings of the cell was featured on ABC’s primetime show World News on Tuesday night...
...territory familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of the Beatles’ history. Their rough early years in Liverpool as the Quarrymen; the band’s evolution as a cohesive musical force in the decrepit red-light district of Hamburg; their subsequent return to Liverpool; the sudden stardom; their appearance on Ed Sullivan and Beatlemania in America; their reinvention amid the “Sergeant Pepper” years; and finally, the break-up, infamously hastened by tensions from Linda Eastman and Yoko...
...next teen novel, which takes place in the same location as King Dork--a fictionalized version of the Bay Area town he grew up in. This one centers on a group of girls who are obsessed with fortune telling. So Portman has put aside his lifelong dream of rock stardom. "I'm focusing on books right now," he says. "It's a much better...
...gutsy thing to do--to make fun of your own image--because it could misfire horribly or, worse, confirm everyone's suspicions about you. But of all the traits needed for stardom, the one Winslet really radiates is confidence. With few exceptions (there was a short-lived marriage, before her current one to director Sam Mendes), she knows what she wants and how to get it. And as she put it, "I don't do anything by halves." Her coffee is taken very hot and strong, her unfiltered cigarettes rolled by herself--although, she says, she only smokes during interviews...
...such things) as the truth (if that even exists). And in Edith and Edie Beale, Albert and David found a mother-daughter act eager to act out their lifelong psychodrama. As Edie, who was 56 when the movie was shot, confides to the brothers about her dreams of nightclub stardom and her altruistic imprisonment tending for her mother in Grey Gardens, Edith, then nearing 80, insisted that she was the caregiver and her daughter the emotional invalid. It is up to the moviegoer to choose one version as accurate, or neither, or a bit of both...