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...movies, with familiar gangster and rags-to-riches plots and, unless the star was a famous musician, light-skinned leading players. Ralph Cooper was top-billed in the 1938 "The Duke Is Tops, "a genial backstage story about a producer who lets his prot?g? find her own way to stardom. The ing?nue was played by 20-year-old Lena Horne, in her movie debut. When Horne was signed by MGM, the film was rereleased, this time as "The Bronze Venus;" Horne's name was now at the top, Cooper's in agate print below. Cooper would emcee Amateur Night...
DIED. MARIA FELIX, 88, glamorous Mexican film star whose perfect beauty got her discovered as she was walking down the street and catapulted her to international stardom; in Mexico City. A self-taught actress, Felix portrayed a collection of fierce women in such films as La Generala and Enamorada. Her own life was similarly feverish--she married five times and dated a succession of lovelorn painters, writers and musicians...
Almost from the start, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry seemed headed for a Hollywood ending. In 1989, when I had just graduated from college and Washington had just matriculated to stardom, I interviewed him about a new movie he was set to star in called Glory. "I think this movie is good for the country," said Washington, who would go on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Trip, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Two years later, I interviewed another young rising star named Halle Berry, who was co-starring in a comedy about...
...comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
...Then Cook returned to England - and Moore went to Hollywood. In 1978, he got his foot in stardom's door - in perhaps 20 minutes of screen time - with his exuberant turn as Stanley Tibbets, the sublimely ridiculous swinger who thinks he's netted Goldie Hawn, in the Hawn-Chevy Chase comedy "Foul Play." In 1979, George Segal walked off Blake Edwards' production of "10," and Moore - who had met the director in a therapy group - got the part. The story was pure Moore - nebbishy musician has midlife crisis over statuesque young thing Bo Derek - and the movie became...