Word: stardom
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...society. Recalling that in 1951 she had been voted "worst actress in the world" by the Harvard Lampoon, Liz, 45, chuckled: "They didn't have to tell me." This time around, she received tributes to her "great artistic skills and feminine qualities"; the latter presumably commemorated her matrimonial stardom. As Sixth Husband John Warner looked on proudly, the actress accepted an enormous Hasty Pudding spoon "for making a big stir wherever she goes" and a 6-in. hunk of Lucite cut in the shape of a diamond. She held it next to her beringed finger, then gasped in mock...
Gregory retired a year ago at 29 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). A shy, painstaking woman, she found the offstage demands of stardom nearly unbearable, especially after her marriage to A.B.T. Dancer Terry Orr collapsed. The dance world was stunned. Gregory is considered the finest American-trained ballet dancer, with a pure, elegant style that makes music and choreography flow together...
...that he was too small to play Ivy League football. An on-again, off-again freshman season, a sophomore year spent mostly on the bench, and a painful and continually aggravated knee injury, would doubtless have been enough to convince almost anyone else to abandon their hopes for football stardom. But that wouldn't have been in character for Andy Puopolo. And it was this dedication, this will to persevere, and a quiet, unassuming, but ever-present sense of confidence in himself, which enabled him to emerge this year, not only as a starter at cornerback, but as a standout...
William Wellman's wonderful original A Star Is Born (1937) and George Cukor's superb musical reworking (1954) both shared the same sure-shot story (written originally by Wellman and Robert Carson). Norman Maine, an actor at the apex of stardom and about to slide into an alcoholic decline, meets, loves and marries a young woman named Esther Blodgett, whose fame gradually surpasses his own. Less out of bitterness than from shame, Maine commits suicide by walking into the surf at Malibu...
Flop-houses and failed rock stardom somehow seem to have filed many of our romantic self-images five years ago. Just revisit Performance to bring it all back. If you've ever sensed that Mick Jagger should have thrown n the towel years ago, this film will show you why. The jig has long been up on Jagger's androgonous lewdness. Yet like the seemingly straight lodger who gets sucked into this singer's hallucinogenic world, you may still revel in the decadence. If you think you might still dig it, as the saying went, go freak yourself...