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...Director Jan Troell, calling Birnbaum George C. Scott. "Poor Troell bit," says Birnbaum, "shook hands eagerly, apologized for not having recognized such an important star and wondered whether he might discuss a little project that he had in mind. Liv collapsed in shame and laughter and blew my imminent stardom...
...imminent. In pursuit of fame, they have ranged far from Boston and have outgrown the purely local following so notably cultivated over the last year and a half. Lake the J. Geils Band, they hope for a national reputation, national media-oriented identifies as musicians, and national-sized dough stardom, the height of professional success, the logical ambitious step for a band who proved unequivocally to Boston audiences what a mindblowingly good high energy crowd-drawing and of musicians they were. They decided to "take...
...Harry Richman, 77, song-and-dance man of the top hat and tuxedo genre who popularized Puttin' on the Ritz, Walking My Baby Back Home and On the Sunny Side of the Street; in Burbank, Calif. After his start as a Tin Pan Alley song plugger, Richman won stardom in the Broadway revues of the '20s and '30s, where he introduced standards like The Birth of the Blues and It All Depends on You. One of the highest paid stars of the era, and temporary fiancé to "It Girl" Clara Bow, Richman mastered the role...
...1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in New York. A vivacious talker with a honeyed Georgia drawl off-camera, Hopkins on-screen cast shrewd eyes on her leading men. One of her early hits was Director Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). She heightened her stardom with the title role in Hollywood's first full-length Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp (1935), and the controversial These Three (1936). One of Hopkins' major professional regrets: turning down the female lead in It Happened One Night, which won an Oscar for Claudette Colbert...
...rights, exhibitions), Bobby's possible earnings could easily top the $1,000,000 mark. In parting, Fischer gave Spassky a camera, said he would welcome a rematch "if the prize pool is high enough." Meanwhile, back in New York, Chess Master Shelby Lyman mused over his own sudden stardom after acting as host for National Educational Television's coverage of the Reykjavik tournament. Lyman, who until recently lived in a $50-a-month cold-water flat and who earned only about $4,000 for his video stint, figures to make about $100,000 or so this year from...