Word: stardom
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...black-robed Benedictine monks-the ecclesiastical equivalent of putting a Yale man on the cover of the Harvard yearbook. Then, as Chant's sales took off, an overeager EMI executive flew to Silos to talk to the monks about a follow-up album. Suspicious of the machinery of stardom--and the private helicopter whirring overhead--the monks greeted the exec through a peephole in the monastery's front door and told him to hit the road. "That made them very cross," recalls Buruaga...
...Michael Jordan and Joe Montana pass through the revolving door of athletic stardom, we are reminded of the ephemeral nature of the sports world. Athletes come and go and this year's championship team may not even make next year's playoffs...
Kids no longer pick up a bat and ball, racquet or hockey stick, without having some vision of stardom. After all, with Michael Jordan's (new) number on their shirt and an overwhelming desire to "Be Like Mike," how could they not dream...
...name on the marquee, it is hard to begrudge Broderick the part. To the role of J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, he brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies like Brighton Beach Memoirs to the Civil War epic film Glory. As an actor, Broderick has a gift that is almost impossible to fabricate: an unforced freshness...
...musical on name recognition alone, but it's hard to begrudge him the part. As J. Pierrepont Finch, the World Wide Wicket Co.'s window washer turned mailroom clerk turned rising executive, Broderick "brings the same quizzical intensity of gaze and naturalness of gesture that carried him to stardom in everything from Neil Simon comedies to the Civil War epic film Glory," says TIME contributor Brad Leithauser. As satire goes, Leithauser adds, director Des McAnuff's amiable version "lacks even some of the mild bite of the original." But "this appealing production urges us all -- whether we are pursuing business...