Word: wenner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie based on his Rolling Stone article "Looking for Mr. Goodbody." Latham, who turned an earlier story into Urban Cowboy, has once again lassoed John Travolta for the lead role as a reporter who works for a Rolling Stone editor, portrayed verisimilarly enough by Rolling Stone Editor Jann Wenner. The twins play two of the many "good-bodies" whom Reporter Travolta interviews during his investigation of the health-club scene. The Denver-born Bayne sisters had cooled on acting when they got the Perfect! opportunity. They also decided to do a little demure nude modeling in hopes of opening...
...Museum of Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine Editor and Publisher Jann Wenner. Rock suffered from polio as a child, but shows no ill effects from the disease. He exercises for an hour every morning when at home and spends much of each winter skiing in Aspen, Colo., where he conducts business from a three-story, $450,000 condominium...
Throughout, one theme keeps coming back--the idea that Lennon was constantly risking something by staunchly sticking with even the most unpopular and outlandish convictions. As Jann Wenner writes...
...awfulness and who then faded away amid the flames and communiques of the Patty kidnapping; Bill, trying time after time to grab hold of a paper or to understand how his father had betrayed him; young Will, trying to break out of the circle by joining Jann Wenner in a new magazine called Outside, and discovering Wenner as disappointing a publisher as assorted Hearsts had been. Despite a faithful recording of the tensions within the Corporation, Chaney and Cieply never probe very deeply, never confronting the intra-familial demon wrestling the Hearst dynasty...
Stripped of its Whitmanesque rhetoric, this means the fixture as before: first person singularities from the prominent (Miss U.S.A., Ted Turner, Joan Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger), the recognizable (Baseball Maverick Bill Veeck, Novelist Jill Robinson, Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner) and the totally obscure. All of them are highly individual, all discuss some aspect of that worn shibboleth, the American Dream. As they talk, platitudes give way to testimony, and the vision becomes a document...