Word: stardom
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...begun his motion-picture career with a retrospective documentary. Those millions who saw Pumping Iron did not easily forget the images of men so surrealistically proportioned they could not reach into their own pockets. The Body, as Arnold was then known, launched himself on a quest for movie stardom, not to rest until the entire world can spell his name with only moderate effort...
...beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls out his Ginsbergian verse ("Sucking pods of bitterness/ In the madhouse of Doctor Dread/ Razor shreds of rat puke fall on my bare arms"). She is even touched by Charlie's perplexed devotion, his doomed itch for pop stardom, his '50s suaveness that plays like '80s nerdity. Youth may be wasted on the young, but Peggy Sue savors it the second time around...
...this is 1986, when women on screen have been liberated from goddess-hood and turned into grunts. So Sigourney Weaver -- actor, playwright, bonne vivante, gun-control activist and, at a sensational 5 ft. 10 1/2 in., just possibly the world's most beautiful tall smart woman -- is striding toward stardom in her Marks & Spencer underwear and shouldering enough artillery to keep Caspar Weinberger happy till next Thursday. Aliens, indeed; has anyone thought of starring her in a movie called Humans...
This tiny terror with the big raucous talent has earned his stardom, and he is savoring it. "You can't do the 'poor guy' number with Danny," says his friend, Writer-Director James L. Brooks. "Instead of getting mad at the hurt he's experienced -- which takes the fun out of success when it comes -- Danny decided instead that it's a gas things have worked out so well." It was Brooks who helped cast DeVito as Louie DePalma, the pernicious troll of the Sunshine Cab Co. on TV's Taxi (1978-83). Expectorating slurs, dancing...
...Burgess for himself, Alda has imbued the character with his own well-known and entirely admirable traits. He is intelligent and well spoken. He is kind and decent. He is a man of reason. He is also something of a bore. Alda lacks the air of dangerousness that movie stardom requires. That is why his great success as a performer has been on television, where week in, week out, agreeableness makes a star. In his last feature, The Four Seasons, however, he was successful because he integrated himself into an ensemble of amusing busybodies. Here he is more an observer...