Word: stardom
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...sick to sing. Anemia has sapped the strength she needs to sell her raw-meat music. She can't go on. She must go on; Ike is there, all silky unspoken threat, to see that she fulfills her obligation to the man who found her, nursed her to stardom, gave her her name. He only wants her to sing the hit he has written for her, A Fool in Love ("You can't understand/ Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling on the stage...
...hero played by a Chinese actor (hence the lead in Kung Fu goes to David Carradine). Bruce returns to his roots, from which he draws the beginnings of a new career as the protagonist of cultishly successful martial-arts movies. Soon, however, he is paying the accustomed costs of stardom: turning into a temperamental workaholic, neglecting his family. Just as it seems that superstardom is about to end his problems, a cerebral edema ends his life at a mere 32 years...
ACTOR BRANDON LEE HAD HOPED TO RIDE THE CROW, his third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
...think it has to do with small boys and numbers." He got hooked on baseball statistics at age eight and was drawn as well to election-return tables. He had already been notified by the Little League coaches of Norwalk, Connecticut, that he was fated to fandom rather than stardom on the field...
...respecter of technique. Its X-ray eye scans an actor's face for a fineness or boldness of line. Because most movies are illustrated fables, the camera wants faces that communicate -- in the immediate emotional shorthand of a close-up -- the character's pedigree to the audience. So film stardom is often the luck of the genetic draw...