Word: stardom
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Winfrey is barely recognizable, not because she uses putty or prostheses but because she has deglamourized herself and renounced the oozing empathy of her TV stardom. "As soon as I saw her I smiled to myself," Morrison says, "because I did not think of the brand name. She looked like Sethe. She inhabited the role...
DIED. DANE CLARK, 85, actor and self-described "Joe Average" with an uncommon knack for portraying sympathetic tough guys; in Los Angeles. The no-nonsense, Bronx-born Clark, who found stardom playing sailors and soldiers in such World War II-era films as Destination Tokyo and God Is My Co-Pilot, also acted on Broadway and television. DIED. STANISLAV REMBSKI, 101, prolific portraitist with an economical style that masterfully evoked the spirit of his subjects; in Baltimore, Md. Among the best known of Rembski's 1,500 works were posthumous portraits of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, the latter...
...biopic. But theater lovers know them as showcases for definitive roles--the stunted man of thought, the malefic man of action--played by Ian McKellen, the prime Shakespearean actor of our time. Now, with leading roles in two ambitious thrillers, Sir Ian, 59, must face the inconvenience of movie stardom. In Gods and Monsters, he is James Whale, the director of Frankenstein, who in his last days seeks a young man to ease his roiling soul. In the Stephen King tale Apt Pupil, he plays an aged Nazi, living incognito in California, who is forced into an uneasy alliance with...
...father worked in the shipyard. He was an altar boy who busted loose, discovering girls and guitars at Pearl River Junior College in Poplarville, Miss., playing acid rock in the clubs of New Orleans, moving to Nashville and working for Billboard, and failing in his first bid for folkie stardom (his debut album stiffed, and his second was put on the shelf). In 1971 he fled Tennessee and a bad first marriage and wound up at the end of the road in Key West, then a lazy outpost for shrimpers, smugglers, gays and cosmic cowboys like singer Jerry Jeff Walker...
...like a flower in bloom." He wrote a satchelful of sparkling, finely detailed songs about life in the Keys and toured constantly, attracting a following and then a new record deal. Promoting himself, he liked to imply that he had smuggled marijuana to make ends meet. When stardom hit, Rolling Stone repeated the old tales in a 1979 cover story, and Buffett was detained by the authorities in St. Barts, where he was then living. "Me and my big mouth," he says. "I had never been a dope dealer; I was just hangin' in the bars, tryin' to be cool...