Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Krall strode from the wings at a recent tribute concert to saxophone great Benny Carter, the Carnegie Hall audience might have briefly wondered whether Sharon Stone had wandered onstage. Smashingly glamorous, with lavish golden hair and a smoldering glare, Krall could easily have been mistaken for a big-screen starlet. But appearances aside, the moment she launched into the opening notes of Carter's classic heartbreaker, Fresh Out of Love, it was clear that this compelling new singer has more in common with Ella Fitzgerald than with any Hollywood actress...
Madonna: I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid...
...think most white people like him, despite polls that show they believe he got away with murder. Nor does he understand that ostracism is an age-old way of showing disapproval; Fatty Arbunkle, a much bigger star, saw his career collapse after he was acquitted of murdering a starlet. Some of Simpson's lawyers advised him to quietly reach out to black churches and ghetto youth programs to thank African Americans for supporting him during his trial. Instead, Simpson has chosen to treat blacks as suckers: asking them to pony up for his videotape...
...course, there's a lesson to be learned from all of this, though it's hard to figure out just what that lesson is. In the end, Nomi leaves behind the life of the Vegas starlet (she also forsakes her best friend Molly, who, after a final ludicrous plot twist, is left lying semi-comatose in the hospital). You don't know where Nomi is going to end up, and, by that point you don't really care...
...refreshing breath of foppery comes from Lord Brounker (Mike Efron). An envoy to the King, he brings both good and bad news to Sir John. Fabulously beribboned in pink, Brounker is a starlet who wags his opulence in the face of the sick and the desperate. Literally a pink triangle, his effeminate manner and costuming furnish a witty reminder of the politics of our own age. Efron brings just the right delicate edge to make his performance stand...