Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reared their daughters. Although Frances was the inspiration for Norman's acerbic TV character Maude ("All of Norman's work is autobiographical -- Archie Bunker was based on his father"), the show- business community was a peculiar culture that reduced Frances, who did not want to be either a starlet or a producer, to an atrophying, bitterly depressed Hollywood wife. After much therapy, she chose to end her 28-year marriage. (Norman Lear, 66, has since married a psychotherapist, with whom...
Suddenly, then, Thailand has been thrown into the spotlight like a freshly discovered starlet. Thai restaurants have become the trendy's choice from Kansas City to Tokyo, and the newly crowned Miss Universe is a Thai (though a resident of what Thais call their 74th province, California). SPORTS ILLUSTRATED posed this year's splashy swimsuit issue on Thailand's beaches, and a new Orient Express is scheduled to start its luxury runs from Bangkok to Singapore in less than two years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood...
...TYPE? are almost as common along the Quayle trail as those reading CHICKEN HAWK. His wife Marilyn, a lifelong Quayle handler, told reporters her husband tries to reread Plato's Republic once a year. She sounded like one of the oldtime MGM publicity men who, whenever a starlet got into trouble, churned out a press release announcing her enrollment in correspondence courses at the Sorbonne. Ridicule is as contagious in politics as it is in show business: even a few Bush aides privately call Quayle the blond bombshell. He needs a chance to show some gravitas. Quayle is not exaggerating...
During his five years as the head of the Justice Department, Meese has been implicated in more scandals than a soap opera starlet. By resigning, some have written, Meese will make the Reagan Administration--and Bush--look a lot less corrupt...
...could not be the celebrated Jeane Dixon, since the Reagans lost faith in her powers some years back. Was it Joyce Jillson, a starlet turned celebrity astrologer who quickly let everybody know that she had "spent a lot of time at the White House" after 1981 and that her charts had recommended George Bush as Reagan's 1980 running mate? Neither the President nor the First Lady recalls ever meeting Jillson...