Word: starstruck
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Brown quickly refashioned the New Yorker in her own image--brainy, Anglophilic, profane and more than a little starstruck--which was probably a good match for most of the readers she was after. As former editor of Vanity Fair, she was schooled in the ways of Conde Nast Publications, the Newhouse family's high-luster group of magazines, which also include Vogue and GQ. She also understood that the New Yorker was different. Watching her try to blend the sacred and profane was one of the great journalistic pastimes of recent years. Her brain was a table-of-contents mosh...
...enough, Clinton will have to reconsider whether to offer more than he has of his side of the story--either that or attack her credibility head on. In that event, even the Vanity Fair spread could be spun in public as evidence that she's a starstruck and self-dramatizing young woman prone to glamorous fantasies. But as Starr must also appreciate, going after Lewinsky is a tactic that could backfire in public opinion...
...work. But he had not been looking for a cause to lead. It was a historical accident that he appeared to those idealistic rebels against theatrical tradition, the Stanislavskians, as the messiah they had sought for decades--the genius-hunk who could sexily take their case to the starstruck public, help them reform not just acting technique but the whole corrupt Broadway-Hollywood way of doing business...
...story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent" up front. As Andrew Decter, a New Jersey insurance broker who has taken the Meilis under his wing, explains, "He got starstruck, and we had to bring him back down to earth...
Have I mentioned, though, how uproarious thiswhole thing is? Allen arrives in London, theband's final stop, with the prediction that thistime "they'll hate me in my own language." Betweenconcerts, as American tourists in ritzy localesflash his photo with starstruck squeals, hewonders why people who will fly overseas to takehis picture "won't pay ten cents to see one of mymovies...