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...education and temperament an intellectual theology of social activism. A member of the most alienated and oppressed group in American society, he was his generation's most eloquent expositor of the American Dream. Brought up among Atlanta's middle class Black elite he often found his strongest supporters and dearest friends among the South's poor Blacks. King combined within his person a host of conflicting traditions and ideals. His ability to embrace contradictions gave King his greatest strength as well as his greatest vulnerability...
...tuna! One conspicuous difference: the amount of billies a true Val pours into clothes, sunglasses, tanning oil, lip gloss, Tab, Doritos, Kahlúa brownies, Bubblicious chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria in White Plains, N. Y. (Minis and ruffles, short pants and denim jackets with the collar turned...
...appearances are anything, the 17th century certainly seems to agree with Faye Dunaway, 41. As does her near typecasting in the role of heroine-bitch. Hard on the stiletto heels of her portrait of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, Dunaway is playing the Margaret Lockwood part in a remake of the saucy 1945 film, The Wicked Lady. In this version, to be released next spring, Dunaway plays Lady Barbara Skelton, a country lady of leisure by day who hits the road as a highwaywoman at night. Her part is decidedly wicked-but with a difference. "I've always played...
None of this means that movie stars in private do not leave behind their public images. Ladd: The Life, The Legend, The Legacy of Alan Ladd reveals that the actor dwelt in a hell of insecurity that was utterly incompatible with the cool, confident screen image. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford establishes that her poised mother Joan occasionally became a hysterical, sadistic monster at home. Bing Crosby, the easygoing crooner of love ballads, behaved like a callous heel toward his first wife Dixie, if Bing Crosby: The Hollow Man is to be believed...
...songs of his father fill Cooney's conversations with strangers. His dearest recollections and direst regrets are open to everyone. In a conflict of stubborn wills, Gerry moved away from home at 18. "When I heard how he had gone around calling me 'my son, the fighter,' and how proud it turns out he really was of me, that really hurt, you know?" When he fell ill with cancer, Tony bought himself a motorcycle and made lonely journeys to Montauk, at the far end of Long Island, to look out at the sea. "What did he think...