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...says his relatives still haven't learned of his new found stardom even though the magazine has been on the newsstands since last week. "I never did tell my family. I just wanted to see if they saw it, but they haven't mentioned...
...accounts, Grace Kelly lived a charmed life. Born into Philadelphia society in 1929, she grew up in high style and later cruised to stardom with an ease that seemed to suggest pre-destiny. Then after establishing herself as the screen's most-celebrated star, she quit the movies and married a real-life prince, in the tiny, prosperous principality of Monaco. She was America's first princess, and the closest thing to royalty our country ever had. For most of her life, Grace Kelly's feet never touched the ground. So when she suffered a stroke last week that...
DIED. Maria Jeritza, 94, soprano golden girl of opera's golden age; in Orange, N.J. Combining a radiant voice with flamboyant acting, the Austrian-born singer began her ascent to stardom in 1912, when the Emperor Franz Josef invited her to join the Vienna Royal Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang from 1921 to 1932, the director reported that the largest ovation he had ever heard followed her "Vissi d'arte, "the great second-act aria in Tosca; she sang it prostrate on the floor. A tempestuous diva onstage and off, Jeritza gathered three husbands, prompted...
...commentary on the mentality and sensitivity of the American public that it is willing to equate the use of four-letter words with another four-letter word: star. The pollution that flows from this man should restrict him to blue night clubs rather than elevate him to top-dollar stardom...
...films, Continental Divide and Neighbors, Belushi played ordinary guys beset and attracted by extraordinary eccentrics. He might have been announcing that Animal John was also a mensch, but it is more likely he was simply expanding his range toward more traditional character parts. After a few years of shooting stardom, Belushi was inching to ward mid-life without another climax immediately in view. Now it has found him. In his early days with Lemmings, he had mocked celebrity burnout with the All-Star Dead Band - Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin. Less than a decade later, the samurai...