Word: stardom
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...such things) as the truth (if that even exists). And in Edith and Edie Beale, Albert and David found a mother-daughter act eager to act out their lifelong psychodrama. As Edie, who was 56 when the movie was shot, confides to the brothers about her dreams of nightclub stardom and her altruistic imprisonment tending for her mother in Grey Gardens, Edith, then nearing 80, insisted that she was the caregiver and her daughter the emotional invalid. It is up to the moviegoer to choose one version as accurate, or neither, or a bit of both...
...That story, with minor alterations, could fit many women, perhaps most of them, who have come to Hollywood with dreams of stardom that never materialize. But if that were all there was to say about Louise Brooks, we would not be celebrating her centenary today. The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco would not be holding "Happy Birthday, Louise" party to accompany a performance of Lulu, a play based on her signature film Pandora's Box. The Criterion Collection would not be issuing a double-disc edition of the Pandora's Box DVD. And Rizzoli would not have published Louise Brooks...
That was, in many ways, a return to where he started. He rose through the CIA's analysis directorate as a Russia scholar during the 1970s until plucked for stardom by Reagan spymaster William Casey. Gates had a reputation as a tough-nosed hard-liner; in fact, Gates was never a mirror image of the shrewdly moderate Baker. During the first Bush Administration, Gates was far more skeptical of Mikhail Gorbachev and his perestroika program than was either Baker or the President. Gates' closest ally in that minor crusade was none other than then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Gates' nickname...
...failures are more memorable, and more spectacular. The facial contortions and annoying speech patterns that made Jim Carrey funny did not work in dramatic fare like “The Majestic,” and Michael Jordan’s endurance and sweet stroke did not propel him to stardom in baseball. Some talents simply do not hold up well under experimentation...
...James Cagney machine-gunned his way to stardom with The Public Enemy and other gangster movies in the early '30s. Immediately he agitated his studio, Warners, for more varied roles. Twice he took a voluntary suspension to make his point, returning each time for a higher salary and a tad more creative input. He left Warners again in 1936 and put himself on the open market. Though Cagney was a major star, the big studios stayed away from him, fearful that if one actor could dent the system, anarchy would ensue. He made one picture for tiny Grand National...