Word: stardom
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...before the camera that Butch is made both compelling and agreeable. This World isn't perfect: it zigzags toward its climax and dodders in pathos when it gets there. But it's a handsome calling card for two Hollywood artists in prime form -- one at the high noon of stardom, the other in the tumbleweed afternoon of a distinguished career...
...Gummi Bear. Then he recovers and in a flash works up the good-natured energy he displays on his sitcom. "But I still love the ladies. Martin loves the ladies!" He's too busy to be too serious. He's a comic on the laugh track to stardom...
...prissy Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (his first film, 1968) or the Rupert Murdoch-like press baron in the 1985 play Pravda, he had his own suitcase of mannerisms: the clipped elocution, the run-on sentence, all the pensive ahhs and umms. But with age and stardom, he has discovered how to be still. He knows he can do less and be more. Audiences will study him like a weather-worn statue for hints of darkness, heroism, meaning. Like Stevens, he learned to serve, and to seek greatness in serving...
Hopkins can be so engagingly heedless about stardom because, he says, "I've never really planned out a career. I've gone along with -- call it destiny, luck, whatever. I've very much been that sort of person my entire life." Born New Year's Eve 1937 in Port Talbot, Wales, the son of a master confectioner and baker, Hopkins entered the Cardiff School of Music and Drama to study piano. "I was a poor student," he says, "very slow, very backward. I drifted into acting because, literally, I had nothing better...
...four band members: Billy's, Kathi's and Tobi's faces look normal, but Kathleen's is crossed out with thick black pen, as if the band wanted people to focus more on its music and less on its charismatic star. The music's fine (and the stardom must get annoying), but it's Kathleen Hanna's singing that sets this record apart. "Don't need you" was a catchy chorus from the last Bikini Kill disc, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. But by now, if you like punk rock at all, you ought to know that you need to hear...