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...shed a calculated tear on-camera during a human-interest interview. In one sense, Tom is the reverse of Bud Fox: he isn't bright, but he's smart -- smart enough to use his looks and his nice, helpful, attractive attitude to get intelligent people to push him toward stardom, so that they connive in the erosion of their ideals. He is the ultimate salesman and, Brooks suggests, the ultimate news product...
Warning: Fooling Around May Be Hazardous to Your Health. In its story of a married man who has a quick, hot affair and then lives (just barely) to regret it, the film taps a nerve of anxiety to become the decade' s zeitgeist hit. -- Stardom comes to Actress Glenn Close, whose homicidal character can be seen as an avenging angel of feminism. See CINEMA...
...Mastroianni attained Italian film stardom as the wistful suitor in Visconti's White Nights, and in 1959 Fellini made him an international icon by casting him in La Dolce Vita. Mastroianni compares these two men, who were crucial to his career: "Visconti was the teacher. Severe, but we like him. Fellini is your benchmate, the one you sit next to and make jokes. With Fellini, always we make it a joke. The more serious the film, the more we laugh. We don't say, 'Oh, maestro, how beautiful is this thing you are creating!' We think this...
These days Jessica Hahn, Donna Rice and Fawn Hall are crisscrossing public attention, suddenly shot from obscurity to -- well, not fame and not stardom but a sort of fuzzy, soggy celebritude. They illustrate how the resourceful can profit from publicity that might just embarrass the unambitious. Consider...
Television journalism demands presence. The first and loudest question is apt to net presidential attention and response. That is the gold. The second, more muted question is apt to be ignored and forgotten, and the asker is apt to feel his stardom and celestial salary threatened. Network White House correspondents can now come close to a million a year. A startled Lyndon Johnson once grumped, "My God, do you realize they pay some of those telly- vision reporters $60,000 a year?" Mere peanuts today...