Word: stardom
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...does have a knack, like Reagan, for coming across as both larger than life and down-to-earth-a friendly star. Her press secretary, Francis O'Brien, is also a Hollywood producer. "There's no formula for stardom," says O'Brien of his candidate's appeal. "But it starts when she looks at an audience, whether one person or 10,000, and actually sees them, engages them." Ferraro's confidence got a boost in late August, after her performance at a marathon press conference concerning her finances. "When she saw how bowled over everyone...
...Marilyn Monroe. For the 4½ years of their marriage, the egghead and the sex goddess were headliners in every tattling tabloid, and their divorce in 1961 hardly stilled the clucking, for the next year Monroe was dead from an overdose of barbiturates. Miller must have found this stardom by proxy offensive. Yet in a way, After the Fall accedes readily enough to the demands of celebrity: Tell us all, tell us the worst, tell us more than we think we want to know. Although Quentin, the play's protagonist, is a lawyer, and Maggie, his second wife...
WHENEVER BARBARA Walters lets a solemn tone creep into her voice, I expect to hear something like "How has stardom treated you, Farrah?" It's been so long since the Million Dollar Journalist covered anything real that I wasn't sure she remembered how. But when her big chance for revived "hard news" exposure finally came, in the first Presidential debate last week, she managed at the same time both to misstate an important issue and overstate the purity of American political news coverage...
...industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier in the 1950s that blacks had a bankable movie hero. "To this day," argues Film Historian Donald Bogle, "Poitier remains the most important black actor. The image he presented made white audiences take black Americans seriously, at least while they sat in the movie theater...
...hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman and the film Places in the Heart. In his liberal adaptation of Wilson's text, Malkovich has shown some up-front ingenuity: spotlighting or freeze-framing a conversation, orchestrating the Ivesian symphony of invective, offering instant replays...