Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onetime movie starlet, Jiang beguiled Mao sufficiently to become his fourth wife and, from 1966 to 1976, the remorseless doyenne of the Cultural Revolution. During that purge, the Gang of Four (Jiang; Zhang; Wang Hongwen, 48, now serving a life sentence; and Yao Jiang in court Wenyuan, 51, serving 20 years) was responsible for some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious...
...also during the 1930s that debutantes began making larky plunges into show business. Between her debut and her marriage in 1947, Cornelia's mother was briefly a Ziegfeld Girl and a Hollywood starlet with a studio contract. In New York City, cafe society was paying to hear debs sing at the Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels, as well as at a West Side nightclub called La Place Pigalle...
There was a curious pastiche of a show at Constitution Hall, almost as confused as the war. Jimmy Stewart read a letter from the fatherless son of a Viet Nam casualty, Carol Lawrence recited The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and erstwhile Starlet Chris Noel recreated the Armed Forces Radio show she had broadcast to U.S. servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis...
...those who missed last week's episode in the popular series Palace-the continuing saga of a colorful, wealthy family whose lives are all centered beneath one gilded roof-the handsome and dashing young Prince Andrew, 22, had cut short his Caribbean vacation with fetching onetime Porn Starlet Koo Stark, 25, in hopes of stilling the wicked quills of gossip. Alas. An opportunistic companion on the trip, Elizabeth...
...Kong, that she read Farmer's autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? In vain she tried to persuade Bob Rafelson or Bob Fosse to direct it. (Rafelson would hire Lange for The Postman; Fosse is now preparing a film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits a showdown at the film's completion. But Lange...