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Called the "prince of post-modernist trumbet-with-a-punch" in a recent Down Beat article, Bowie began his rise to jazz stardom in the early sixties, working with "doo-wop" bands, and backing the likes of Albert King and Joe Tex. He moved to Chicago in the mid-'60s, became a part of the "Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians," and in 1965 the critically acclaimed "Art Ensemble of Chicago...
...Expansion teams usually contain very unmemorable talent, but occasionally a player goes on to stardom. The Seattle Pilots, for example, traded away a young outfielder named Lou Pinella. For five points each...
...most passionate American dream, more nearly universal than finding the streets paved with gold or hearing the crowd cheering the winning touchdown or even taking the oath of office, hand on the Bible: the vision of being discovered and thrust into instant movie stardom. In much publicized myth, it can happen at a soda counter. But it happens most often to people who work at it, begging for appointments to plead for the privilege of being allowed to audition so that they can then risk being "typed out"-excluded because they have "the wrong look"-after a glance from...
Most people who struggle for stardom live in New York or California. Even the giddiest know they have little chance of being discovered in a drugstore in Manhattan, Kans., or a restaurant in Los Angeles, Texas. They scour the trade newspapers for notices of auditions. The more fortunate have union memberships that get them past guarded doors. The rest try to fib their way in or, if less bold, wait for "open calls." Known as "cattle calls," they may be publicity stunts. But for an unknown, they may be the only hope...
...money he had earned. A court battle left the actor with only $126,000, though the controversy resulted in the passage of California's so-called Coogan Act, which puts all juvenile earnings into court-administered trust funds. Bald and obese in middle age, Coogan never regained movie stardom but charmed a new generation as the ghoulish Uncle Fester in television's The Addams Family...