Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine's rakish advances. Both Geraldine Chaplin and Shelley Duvall are wasted in limiting characters that flirt with the stereotypical throughout the film; in any case, it is not the acting that makes Nashville, but rather Altman's perfection...
...black has been trusted to send runners home from the third-base coaching box. Only the N.B.A. has blacks in major decision-making positions. Even the bench is a white preserve. Unlike some white athletes, blacks do not have the luxury of being marginal players. For them, it is stardom or back to the minors. According to a 1967 study, black players had higher batting averages than their white counterparts at every position...
...Chevy Chase, the road to success has been paved with gold banana peels. As one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players on NBC'S Saturday Night Live, Chase stumbled to stardom with his pratfall impressions of President Ford, and NBC gave him a $2 million-plus contract to create and star in three of his own TV specials. The Chevy Chase Show, which airs this week (May 5,10:00 p.m. E.D.T.), is a series of quick-cut sketches devoted to TV itself...
...Alice Louise of England, 26, and Captain Mark Phillips, 28; their first child; in November. The baby, the first grandchild for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, will be fifth in succession to the British throne. · Married. David Cassidy, 26, teeny-bopper heartthrob who sang his way to rock stardom on TV's The Partridge Family in 1970; and Kay Lenz, 24, who played the widow Kate on ABC'S Rich Man, Poor Man series; in Las Vegas...
...group was suffering from management, money and drug problems. Santana himself, pressured by sudden stardom was "watching the band decay on the wrong energy flow...what I was really seeking was illumination not satisfaction." Santana went to Sri Chinmoy, the Ceylonese guru who'd helped John McLaughlin. McLaughlin, whose rock-jazz had been increasingly influenced by Indian raga music, had adopted the philosophy of creating his music as an offering to a Supreme Being. Santana took similar steps towards peace and enlightenment--to the point where he wrote "God Himself is the musician." The band became increasingly jazz-oriented after...