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  How better to perpetuate this conceit than showing the stars in their homes, with their families, miming normalcy? Elaborate at-home charades to depict the stars as just real folks. Editors and fans alike ate it up. Here were the icons of the movies doing everyday things everyone did – …

  An insect especially diffuse in Central and South America (in particular in Perù), as well as the Canary Islands, southern Spain and Algeria. The female contains a red pigment, carminic acid, which is extracted by dryng out the insect’s body, pulverizing it and treating it with ammonia or a …

        On the shore where boredom led her, right there To turn her into fireflies Daughters of the night’s stars They design her a halo.   CHARLES MARTIN 1913

    For Fellini, the search for interpreters, of faces that correspond with imagined characters, is an essential, anxious and entertaining job as exemplified by this letter to producer Pietro Notarianni. Dear Pietro, You ask me for a summary description of some of the film’s characters, because your French co-producer …

  In the 1920s and early 1930s Hollywood publicity mills emphasized disparities between stars and audience. Photographs released by the studios to magazines tended to distance the readership from the celebrity to preserve an aura of mystery and awe. By the 1940s, due in part to the rise in the …