Word: stardom
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Without Glen, the public would not have accepted so heartily the more rustic country entertainers that have now achieved stardom...
...figure further, figure even preposterously, that God gives all things equally to all men. Then if mortal life is rotten for most, the soul's reward will be golden. Then too, mortal stardom as every man's dream may be the star's nightmare. As it was Gatsby's, it would later be Hollywood's. Yes, Gatsby's falling star might have seen it writ in the stars that he and his kind would pass on the dreams of America to Hollywood. The talent though not the creed would change, and the next generation of immortals might be his progeny...
...Unlike stardom, craftsmanship and technique do not happen overnight. Al though his watercolor-washed good looks belie it ("You look ten!" said Katharine Hepburn, his co-star in the recent television version of The Glass Menagerie), the 32-year-old Moriarty has been working hard in the profession for 15 years. "For a long while," he says wryly, "I felt like a barren tree. I knew there were a lot of creative juices inside of me and yet nothing was happening. Then in 1973 I finally bore fruit. Boy, did I ever! It was hanging all over...
Died. Allan Sherman, 49, whose album of folk-song parodies, My Son, the Folksinger, was a 1960s comedy hit; of emphysema; in Los Angeles. After lean years as a TV gagwriter and obscure success as one of the creators of I've Got a Secret, Sherman achieved instant stardom with such lyrics as "Do not make a stingy sandwich./ Pile the cold cuts high./ Customers should see salami/ Comin' thro...
...month--they jam the moog and the rest of their equipment onto the tiny stage for the whole booking. The group simply comes with their guitars at about 9 each night for the first of four 40 minute sets. Carrying their own cases, they joke about the burdens of stardom...