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...Even after his retirement in 1948, Bradman had to endure the corollary of greatness, in his case a fame so massive it was given its own name: Bradmania. It was the bane of his life and, with the stress it brought, the cause of much of his ill health. For a tired, introspective old man, reclusion was a sanity-saving last resort. It was also his final stroke of genius. There's enough sound and fury in the world, enough fading stars who won't leave us to our memories, so eventually spoiling them. Bradman remained Bradman...
Buoyed by the successful comedy career of Rick Rockwell, the VJ stylings of Eric Nies and the just-waiting-to-juggernaut acting career of Survivor Colleen Haskell, MANDY LAUDERDALE, redheaded devil woman and breakout star of Temptation Island, is fielding offers to capitalize on her fame. So far, she's been surprisingly fastidious. She told Howard Stern that she turned down a $1.5 million Playboy offer to pose nude, though a Playboy representative said the figure was much lower. The tragic loss to greasy-palmed men is a victory for the arts, as Lauderdale plans to focus on a singing...
...Cooper had cut the sequence after the first preview. It seemed to him that it had stopped the picture cold.) Like Welles' cut of "Ambersons" or the original release print of Cukor's "A Star Is Born," the spider sequence has passed into the Missing Cinema Hall of Fame. It is still the subject of Internet rumours 78 years after it was first reported missing; the web fanatics insist it will appear on the long-delayed American...
...older films; it either showed up on local TV or it didn't. There were no revival houses in Columbus at the time; VHS hadn't been invented. My wife once told me that as a child she dreamed of being President; not because of the power, the fame, or the capacity for changing the world, but rather because the President had his own screening room and could watch any movie he wanted. I knew how she felt...
...study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance's most compelling personalities indeed challenge the reader to reach for the many insights regarding the state of American letters during these years, and to reflect on the complex relations--relations characterized by the strains of money, fame, politics and race--between two colleagues of different generations. Most of all, however, these letters challenge the reader to consider the nature of an evolving friendship between two ambitious authors, one whose career was on the rise, and the other whose career was moving in the opposite direction. Bernard rises...