Word: superstardom
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...this decade from quiet piano-and-voice cuts to glitter-and-guitar tunes, it still had an original fire in it that shows in his first collection, released in 1974. The collection traced Elton's history on the Top 40 from the beautiful "Your Song" through his rise to superstardom and his music's shift toward the loud and outrageous in driving, mindless songs like "Bennie and the Jets" or "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting...
...least Kris Kristofferson, affable and shambling, his pupils spinning like pinwheels, has a good few minutes at the beginning of the movie. So does Director Pierson, as he captures the schizy, druggy, enclosed, exploding tension of rock superstardom. After that, Kristofferson-playing the Norman Maine surrogate, John Norman Howard-is required to freak for Esther and explain his love by comparing the experience to fishing for marlin. It is the rendering of the romance that lays the movie low for good. John Norman (both names, please) is suicidal apparently because, like the film makers, he can not make...
...rescue referred to in that lyric occurred a couple of years before superstardom descended on Elton John, and the disaster he was saved from was marriage to a 6-ft. 2-in. girl named Linda. He had been smitten by her when she came to a Christmas Eve bash he was playing with the Baldry band. Terribly insecure then (and now) around women, he may have been encouraged to unwonted boldness by the fact that her escort on that occasion was a midget. In any event, by the following summer she was sharing a pad with Elton and Bernie. Elton...
...that she is rich and free, "the girl of the '70s," Margaux is moving from pop fame to superstardom. Her life seems to stretch ahead of her like a field of virgin snow. Margaux likes that terrain. Says she: "I love to ski in powder. Then I can look back and see my tracks alone-nobody else...
...stepchild of Ethel Merman who spent summers with Mae West. When she does come on, James Caan is available to perform whatever deflation is necessary. Caan, who plays the flashy Broadway impresario Billy Rose to Streisand's Brice, stands up well under the painful effulgence of her superstardom. He is a scrappy actor, always looking for an opening, and he finds his full share of them-or makes them. Only Robert Redford in The Way We Were was so adept at keeping his balance. Redford did it by playing off Streisand and cooling her out. Caan goes straight...