Word: stardom
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...girl dreamed of movie stardom. Literally dreamed, as she told it years later. "There is a man with short sleeves and a big horn in front of his mouth, shouting, 'Anna May Wong, now you come downstairs and look like the prince was already approaching - we do a closeup of that!' ... and I have an overjoyed face because I feel the great happiness - and the important man says, 'You did a great job, Anna May Wong - You are a film star...
...Disc jockey; writer and occasional performer on Red Skelton's CBS show, which for one night gave him the whiff of stardom when he substituted for the injured star; host of a short-lived interview show, Carson's Cellar, and a flop CBS skein, The Johnny Carson Show; then, in 1957, the gig that earned him fame, an ABC daily quiz program, Who Do You Trust? The Q&A portion of the show was negligible; it was Carson's fast, easy banter with his guests that got the attention of the NBC brass. Jack Paar, whose eventful reign as host...
...Three Chinas: Taiwan's Kaneshiro, Hong Kong's Lau and the mainland's Zhang Ziyi. All are terrific, but the lady shines brightest. Fierce in a battle with eight soldiers, coquettish as she bathes before the enrapt Jin, Zhang is charisma incarnate. She is already nearing American stardom, playing the lead in Memoirs of a Geisha. You can bet she will reveal a new kind of star quality, even as the dazzling Daggers shows Hollywood how to make an action film with depth and pizazz. --By Richard Corliss
Perhaps the purpose of all this is to show that entertaining can often leave one feeling devoid of anything genuine. This would be believable if the line that led Darin back to stardom and satisfaction were not Sandra saying, “People hear what they see.” Even at the very end of the movie, when Darin, gravely ill but still performing, must go backstage between songs to gulp oxygen from a tank, the message seems to be that image is everything...
...holding Penn and Yale to only 10 and three points, respectively. And though the losses of Everett, Tracy, and the other defensive stalwarts for this year’s club will certainly affect Harvard football, expect to see a number of young players continue their rapid rises to stardom next season...