Word: kirke
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...FOOFs (Friends of Old Films) like Yours Truly, the 75th anniversary class portrait of dozens of Oscar-winning actors was pleasant, poignant, sometimes prurient. Since the excuse for these reunions is to see how the waxworks look decades after their eminence (Kirk Douglas: chiseled; Jennifer Jones: scary; Ernest Borgnine: exactly the same as 50 years ago, when he was the thug in "From Here to Eternity"), I wondered why the producers bothered to include recent winners. Where were Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Lisa "She's Everywhere Else" Minnelli? And could Joan Fontaine call a truce with her sister Olivia...
Kolarik was hockey's equivalent of Kirk Gibson, getting one last good swing out of an ailing body to give Harvard its first lead with 3:46 left in the game...
...loud, 90 miles a minute, always trying to get something going," says ex-boyfriend Robert Hall. "Lana wanted to be 'in the scene' so she could meet someone to help her along." Her website exhibits photos of her with soap-opera actors as well as with older stars like Kirk Douglas and Paul Newman. But her screen credits (Barbarian Queen) were not up to that level. Friends described her as always ready to serve as "arm candy"--that is, a pretty date--to industry players, in hopes of landing a role, selling a screenplay idea or hustling...
...might help things along that a Miss Spider TV special will run on Nickelodeon at the end of March and that Callaway and Kirk are also developing a TV series based on both Miss Spider and Nova the robot. On the other hand, the territory they're entering is not unpopulated. Rolie Polie Olie, a geometric tyke who lives on a robotic planet and who, like Nova, is a computer-generated image, is already on the Disney Channel, and his catchy theme song is lodged in the junior set's hearts. (Callaway doesn't see it as a threat...
...Kirk, he's happy to have come full circle, to be back making something again. And he isn't worried that grownup marketing concerns will make it difficult for him to summon his inner boy. "For me, it's more of an effort getting out of the place where I think like a child," he says. Financial maturity has its upside too: more pocket money to blow on robots, other toys and old woodworking tools on eBay. Not to mention the freedom to create more fantasy worlds. After all, what's the fun in growing...