Word: stardom
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...York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers to threatening rival dance groups, from discouraging agents to hordes of mohawked, leather-clad punks, the Adventurous Eight pirouette their way to stardom, shedding only a few poignant tears of disappointment along...
Once up defenseman who would be a first of second personal draft chance if he didn't open for college is reportedly and another such stardom chances down to Harvard and Michigan State...
...shuffling, to his doom. A one-woman show? Catch Whoopi Goldberg, six monologues written and performed by a rag-doll actress with a bonkers stage name. Some of the skits are predictably poignant, and two just peter out. But the evening serves as an embossed calling card for stardom, presented by a scarifyingly gifted comic artist whose radiant smile even a cobra would be compelled to return...
...example, he deplores Farrah Fawcett-Majors' rise to sex-stardom not on grounds of exploitation, but rather on the grounds that she is not as sexy as the symbols from past generations ("Another time I saw Ms. Fawcett-Majors, she was on TV selling shaving cream. If that's what it took to arouse my passions, long-ago I would have leaped over the counter and into the arms of Mr. Solomon, my druggist.") Later, however, he defends Mayor Byrne from her critics among Chicago's "macho" firemen...
...traveling around the U.S. and to Japan-extending their professional lives into late middle-age-but for hundreds of lesser known wrestlers, the work can be unrewarding. Earning little, they spend long hours in body building, cultivating images they hope will propel them toward stardom. Often their careers never get off the ground, and they end up as bouncers and floorwalkers in Las Vegas and other resorts. Still, they keep wrestling, and the spectacle remains popular. Declares Cowboy Casey: "You've got grown men over 250 lbs. engaging in the world's oldest sport. We're gladiators...