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Died. Richard Arlen, 75, romantic leading man who soared to stardom as a World War I aviator in Wings, a 1927 spectacular that won the first Oscar; of emphysema; in North Hollywood. Arlen appeared in some 250 films in a 50-year career that he claimed began with an unusual lucky break-a broken leg, incurred on the Paramount lot, where he was a motorbike-riding messenger boy. Sympathy brought recognition and a chance...
...unnerving as what she got. Accustomed to the deference and more leisurely tempo of old-style Hollywood film makers, she was unprepared for the whirlwind 36-day shooting schedule. Lester's frenetic pace permitted few concessions to star status. Even the canvas chair, that basic symbol of stardom, was not provided; Hepburn had to use an aluminum chair from her trailer...
...Wonder's plight. A contrast is effected between The Boy Wonder's intelligence and dedication to cinematic art, and the foolish self-serving idiocy of the world around him. At one point, Stephen Davies as Rex, dubbed the Wonder Dog, an empty-headed young undertaker with visions of film stardom who moonlights as porno stud, proposes a perverse idea for flaunting his masculinity. The Boy Wonder rejects the idea--an idea which, thought perverse, is in fact appropriate to the erotic purpose of pornographic film--scorning the unimaginative incompetence it represents. The tragedy in Inserts is that The Boy Wonder...
Mary Shinkwin, the captain of the squad, hopes to attend Radcliffe next year. She and her sisters began playing basketball just three years ago in the playgrounds of East Cambridge and despite her meteoric rise to stardom she has maintained a supportive attitude towards her male counterparts. "They ma have been a little jealous of us but we went to all their games and never gave them a hard time...
...enough. I've never been to a Pudding show before so I can't tell, but I hear plot has usually been weak; this year it's about as thin as a slide-specimen. Innocent Kitty Kaboodle comes to New York during the Depression with hopes of instant stardom, or at least she says she's marked it on her calendar. Kitty falls in with other down-and-outers in a chorus-line--including Flo Gently, the first lady of the American stage ("The very first"), and Henna Hoofer, whose name is mispronounced more out of a sense of accuracy...