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with a keen sense of the realities of tin present, its chapters on the Just two decades are particularly rewarding. It presents a feeling portrait of Ingrid Bergman, a fascinating study of John Wayne's prairie heroics, a light-hearted look at Hope and Croshy, plus examinations of BUch transitory hut oddly significant phenomena as The Brave Ones, The Pinups, the Boys and the Girl Next Door. The final chapter introduces us to The Somnambulists, The Fire and Ice Girls, the new sensitivity of heroes like Brando and Clift, the sunny sensuality of Sophia Loren. In addition, there are perceptive views of such children of our time as William Holden, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Rock Hudson. There is a moving interpretation of the life and times of Marilyn Monroe, recapturing her incomparahle warmth, as well as a shrewd analysis of the trouhled girl who may well be the last of the super-stars, Elizabeth Taylor.
But THE STARS is a book that is infinitely more than the sum of its parts. Placing the personalities who made the movies firmly in the context of their times, it is astringment, tough-minded, intelligent, and witty about a subject that is usually treated superficially, sentimentally or sensationally. In its 400 pictures and 60,000 words THE STARS recreates, through the metaphor of the star, the very quality of the life we have led in the last half-century. Lovingly written, beautifully designed, THE STARS is one of those rare books that speaks brilliantly for itself, a book which will make you see with new insight some of the most familiar and celebrated figures of your time.
RICHARD SCHICKEL has been senior editor of both Shoiv and Look. He is the author of a previous book, The World of Carnegie Hall, and has contributed several hundred articles to such magazines as Esquire, The Reporter, Commentary. The Nation, The New Republic, The Progressive. Sports Illustrated.
ALLEN HURLBURT is art director and member of the editorial board of Look. He has been regularly represented in the Art Directors' Club Annual Exhibitions and is a five-time winner of gold medal awards in 1948, '49, '55, '61 and '62. In addition, his work has been exhibited widely both here and abroad.
Jacket design by Allen Hurlburt
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