Word: idolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune. His routines include six chimpanzees and ten singers (the humans are taller), but mostly Kaye depends, as he always has, on his audience, elicits the responses he wants as surely as if he were playing a keyboard instead of rows of strange and private...
...full flush of destalinization, wrote Evgeny Evtushenko. 29. the Russian poet whose honest rage at the cant and callousness of Soviet society has made him the idol of his generation. For a while, in fact, it seemed as if Evtushenko (TIME cover. April 13. 1962) had become a semiofficial Angry Young Marxist, whose occasional excesses were tolerated by the regime because they made it appear as if Khrushchev's Communism could actually accept criticism. If so, Evtushenko pushed his luck...
...critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer; in Greenwich. Conn...
Three days before the Hunsaker fight, Clay signed a contract with a syndicate of eleven white businessmen-ten from Louisville, one from New York, all but four millionaires. That was class, man! Organized and run by William Faversham Jr., 57, sometime actor, son of the matinee idol, now a vice president of Brown-Forman Distillers (Jack Daniel's, Old Forester, Early Times), the syndicate includes Faversham's own boss, W. L. Lyons Brown, and William Cutchins, president of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Viceroys, Raleighs). Terms of the deal: a $10,000 bonus, a salary...
Dorothy Gish, like her sister Lilian, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin, was a matinee idol in the golden era of American film making. She recently celebrated her sixtieth year as an actress and has had a distinguished stage career in addition to her movie credits. Her last visit to Boston was in 1940, when she was touring in Life With Father, and she is currently playing a character role in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal which is being filmed locally...