Word: stardom
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...improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally settling down and finding that he actually enjoyed memorizing lines and hitting marks. Ivan Reitman, the director (Dave) who produced Private Parts, believes, not surprisingly, that Stern's performance is strong enough to launch full-blown movie stardom; Reitman has even talked with Stern (who just signed a new radio contract) about taking the lead in an "edgy" romantic comedy. Reitman says he can also envision a series of films in which Stern continues to play a version of himself, in much the same way Jack Benny played Jack...
...that the family sent to Curb Records, a small company in Nashville, Tennessee, that promptly signed her to a recording deal. About a year later, the title song for her first album, Blue, propelled the youngster to the top of the country charts and onto the fast track to stardom. The song was written for Patsy Cline, who died before she could record it, but it seems made for Rimes. The melody is thick and generous, and even if you're not into country, when Rimes' wild-berry-sweet voice yodels through the hook-filled chorus--"blooOOooOOoo"--you feel like...
...wunderkind years. She has already written three songs for her next album, which will also probably include covers of standards by Cline and Hank Williams. "I want to build my own life," she says, "not have someone do it for me." Now that Rimes has a hold on stardom, she's not about to let it out of her grasp...
...unique stores can find their way to national-chain stardom by starting in the Square, say some, pointing to Pier One Imports, Learningsmith, Au Bon Pain, Cybersmith and Newbury Comics as stores--now chains--that got their start in the Square...
...revelation--perhaps not least to Depp. The success of the film (his only commercial hit) showed that it was possible to subvert stardom's conventional wisdom, which insists that an actor must assert at least some aspect of his nature that the audience can identify and cling to as he moves from picture to picture. Scissorhands proved to Depp that he could work in his own way. "He transforms himself into the character," says Badham. "He's not going to do what some actors do, and transform the character into themselves...