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While Chester French is enjoying its rising campus stardom, Wallach confesses, the band members’ social lives have deteriorated due to the long hours required for the nurturing of their band’s development. With eyes betraying a ragged tiredness, guitarist Drummey says, “We spend all of out time working on our music, [and lately] trying to get this album together...
While Chester French is enjoying its rising campus stardom, Wallach confesses, the band members’ social lives have deteriorated due to the long hours required for the nurturing of their band’s development. With eyes betraying a ragged tiredness, guitarist Drummey says, “We spend all of out time working on our music, [and lately] trying to get this album together...
Heading into the world championships under way in Bormio, Italy, Miller ranked first in the overall World Cup standings, piling up an impressive lead over Austrians Benny Raich and Hermann Maier. At the worlds, Miller has brightened his stardom in typical falling-off-the-planet fashion. During the super-G--the second fastest race after the downhill--Miller took a jump off-kilter at 65 m.p.h., struggled to stay on his skis and still won the race by a nail-biting margin. In the combined downhill and slalom, he lost a ski--and the race...
...from alp to alp in a huge RV, the "Bode Mobile." He recently started his own talk show on the Sirius satellite-radio network, on which he can chat about skiing and partying in a "fairly core" way. Despite his growing exposure, Miller says he is not designed for stardom. In fact, the media interviews, the frantic fan adulation and the obligations to sponsors--all of which he lumps together as "distractions" from the ski racing he loves--are beginning to wear thin...
...many films the slim-chested actress wears no bra, thus allowing viewers to ogle at what Sanney Leung on the invaluable Hong Kong Entertainment News in Review website refers to as "two points") and vaguely forbidding. Hollywood couldn't ignore her allure, and had taken notice of her stardom in Europe. Finally, in 1931, at 26, she got top billing in her first American talkie, director Lloyd Corrigan's Daughter of the Dragon - which, in its unabashed melodramatic excess, its rampaging ethnic stereotypes and the opportunity it affords its star to be simultaneously sexy and grave, sympathetic and villainous, qualifies...