Word: starring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasional assignment in front of the camera. Her open face and broad shoulders kept her from high fashion, but she was the suburban stereotype, one of those "young mamas" who reads Redbook and shops at Peck & Peck. She brought to modeling the same qualities that have made her a star: a combination of controlled, countrified chic and hip innocence that types her as that kind of smart, pretty, unapproachable girl who sat in the back row of the sophomore poetry seminar...
...Super-star Ed Cott leads the Cornell nine in almost all departments. As a high school player in Buffalo. N.Y., the catcher led his team to an unprecedented three straight undefeated seasons...
Anyway, Hieronymous, the main character, is a movie star, writer, and every other kind of icon, who, at the beginning of the movie and sporadically throughout, is shown unreeling the rushes of a film autobiography (by chapters) in front of his grandmother and children. He is forty while this is happening; his birthday was yesterday. Mercy was longer ago than that, before his impregnation of and marriage to Polyester Poontang--but she haunts the film, nevertheless. The film has been made as a sort of sexual monument, with poetic love introduced only occasionally, each time in Mercy's image...
Later On I said, "Your know, if I write anything about you at Harvard, people are going to want to know why you think it's important to be a movie star instead of, say, working in a ghetto or Africa...
...first place, I'm not a movie star. I was in a movie. It's just another job. Mercy Humppe was a nice role...