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...opera house, Benatar would have been typecast as a pert soubrette because of her size (5 ft., 90 Ibs.) and high vocal range. Instead, she cracked the male-dominated rock world in a hurry. In just two years since the release of her first LP, In the Heat of the Night, she has sold 3 million singles and 7 million albums, riding her sultry, powerful voice and sexy stage demeanor to a 1981 Grammy Award...
...typecast for the role of European professor: hair askew, glasses perched precariously on nose, rumpled suit flecked with bits of tobacco from an omnipresent pipe. At the University of Basel, where he taught for 27 years, students adored him. But amiable Karl Barth was anything but indulgent when he talked of man's relationship with...
...association's directors, who met with the model last week, plan to puff Brooke's message in an independent campaign. That is fine with her. Brooke does not fret at being Calvinized as a teen sex symbol, but, says she: "I don't want to be typecast as a smoker...
...actor whose portrayals of cool, self-assured loners made him a leading Hollywood star of the '60s and '70s; of a heart attack after undergoing surgery for removal of a cancerous tumor; in Juarez, Mexico. A graduate of a reform school and a Marine brig, McQueen was typecast for his tough roles, whether leading a prison escape (Papillon), masterminding a daring caper (The Thomas Crown Affair) or driving through a breakneck chase (Bullitt). His screen persona exemplified grace under pressure; he raised his fists but never his voice. He revealed last month that he was suffering from mesothelioma...
...inebriated, slovenly barroom pianist Mumbles in Sylvester Stallone's Paradise Alley (unfortunately much of Waits portrayal ended up on the cutting room floor). And, like a lot of pop music figures nowadays, Waits is open to starring in another venture for the silver screen, though he disdains being typecast. "The thing is, once you get any kind of image -- I've gotten countless calls to play a drunk Irish piano player which is, like, not very challenging. I'd much prefer to play an axe murderer...