Word: stardom
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...audiences that make them successful, ŕ la Chevy Chase, or, like Jim Carrey, renounce them in pursuit of broader horizons. Ferrell not only doesn't chafe under the demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says Adam McKay, Ferrell's co-writer and director on Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Judd Apatow, director of The 40-Year Old Virgin and a producer...
...real president. The president on the popular television thriller 24, which is more real in a way. While George W. Bush never got closer to stardom on the diamond than perhaps some cheerleading for the Bulldogs during his time at Yale and his partial ownership of the Texas Rangers in the 1990’s, the fictional Wayne Palmer, according to his biographical profile on the show’s official website, attended Stanford on a baseball scholarship and was even named “NCAA Baseball Pitcher of the Year,” a distinction that to the best...
...exactly where he got it wrong. When his photographs work they bid us into a realm of privacy, inwardness and even shame. To sustain that mood requires them to shut out the banalities of the outside world. And what's more banal than celebrity? Yes, yes, we've heard, stardom is a fantasy too, but it's the type that steamrollers every more intimate kind. Anybody who thinks that the red carpet is the royal road to the unconscious has lost his bearings. Crewdson's pictures stop working the minute you find yourself wondering about the wrap party...
...Fenice not only earned her the title of La Stupenda but single-handedly brought this neglected opera back into the repertoire. Since being snapped up by New York's Metropolitan Opera for its young artists' development program in 2001, Perth-born Durkin, 31, has been groomed for world stardom. Despite a closer resemblance to Joan Collins than Sutherland, Durkin's Metropolitan audition reminded one Canadian critic of "a young Joan Sutherland without the belle poitrine [fine bosom]," and six years later, her much-heralded talent faces the blowtorch of expectation with Alcina. NIDA-trained Way, resident director at Covent Garden...
Academia and South Korean stardom intersected Friday when Harvard’s Korea Institute hosted a panel discussion on the effects and future of “Hallyu” or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs...