Word: stardom
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...poster is boldly simple: a close-up of Clint staring both out of and into the darkness, with a visage as stark and stony as if it were a fifth face on Mount Rushmore. The image is fully aware of its iconic import, of the strength and frailty of stardom in late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene...
Note to aspiring actors: if your idea of movie stardom is a big trailer and a seven-figure salary, consider the career of Parker Posey. At 28, she has ornamented more than a dozen American independent films. Yet to get to the set of Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation, where she played the leading lady's "eternal love slave" in a blond friz wig, Posey had to pay half her airfare. For Party Girl, in which she did a beguiling star turn as a club hopper with the improbable dream of being a librarian, she earned...
...fans may be worried that she's missing out on conventional stardom, but Posey isn't. "I get a phone call, I get a script, I do the movie. That's where the fun is." And we'll have fun watching her bloom in indie films--if she can afford...
...coaches at Ohio State told him that at 5 ft. 10 in. and 180 lbs. he was too small for the Big 10. Glenn disagreed, so he showed up at practice one day and earned a spot as a walk-on. That led to a starting position, then stardom, and in 1996 the Patriots made him their pick in the first round of the N.F.L. draft...
...Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless driving in the accident over the weekend. Baiul, whose blood alcohol easily exceeded the state limit, and who is two years short of the legal drinking age of 21, was released on her own recognizance...