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...time when many (rightly) pity Michael Jackson for the freakish things his early stardom has done to him, it certainly makes you think. Does our society just think it’s all right to push child stars’ emerging sexuality into a torturous spotlight when they’re teenage girls...
There is one way that Lohan’s character can take control of her own destiny, though. All she has to do, at film’s end, is reject her post-college job as an ESPN producer in New York City (laaaame!) and embrace NASCAR stardom. She’ll be nothing like Matt Dillon’s preening cad. No, she’ll be the kind of celebrity who uses her fame to do noble things, like wear high heels and promote sponsors with the gratuitous product-placement that saturates “Herbie...
MOST IRRESISTIBLE CALORIC BINGE Not to be confused with the soap of the same name, the DoveBar is old news in Chicago but attained stardom in supermarkets and on street corners around the country in '85. The hard-to-handle quarter-pound ice-cream bar has a crackling coating of dark chocolate candy. Invented in the early 1950s by Chicago Confectioner Leo Stefanos, this frozen dessert melts all resistance even at prices that range from...
Where does reality end and fictional metaphor begin? Here is the movies' coolest old pro, Paul Newman, reprising one of his best and most famous roles; here is a hot young newcomer, Tom Cruise, staking his claim to authentic stardom in the best part he has yet had. At issue is possession of the movie in which they co-star, The Color of Money...
...Cruise's crotchets if his box-office numbers slip. His movies still gross $100 million or more in North America, but the profits are shrinking. Not that there's much competition; the only actor whose films regularly gross higher is Will Smith. Nothing lasts forever, however, including film stardom. And Cruise is mistaken if he thinks he can reach younger moviegoers by acting their...