Word: biz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. Numb is the only thing viewers are likely to feel after this film version of Jacqueline Susann's bestselling novel about three semi-recognizable pill-swallowing show-biz sickies in Hollywood's nightmare valley...
Perhaps that's what made him try show biz. He had won money in the Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests that were the craze at local vaudeville houses. Midway in his junior year at East High School, he dropped out to become a dancer at Cleveland's Bandbox Theater. His partners in subsequent years included a pair of Siamese twins and a neighborhood girl, Mildred Rosenquist. Years later, Hope said that "we would make seven or eight bucks, and I would split it with her." Mildred, now a California housewife, challenges that claim to this day. "Bob told...
...appearances are fastidiously staged and rehearsed from a black loose-leaf notebook that programs every musical sequence, every lighting cue, even every hand gesture. Even more important to her than the craft of show biz s the art of the popular song. Over the years, she has learned the arcane alchemy through which a tune can be transformed by its treatment. When her warm, smoky voice curls languidly around a lyric or teases it along with up-tempo jazz phrasing, familiar material reveals unsuspected meanings and yields new freshets of feeling. "There are always deeper layers to discover...
Homespun Hippie. Actually, Douglas, 46, is a square with sharp edges. By "always keeping in mind the people of Cedar Rapids," he avoids the kind of blatant plugging and inside show-biz patter plaguing the late-night talkathons. As a result, his viewers consider him one of them, a kind of homespun hippie who can parry with Stokely Carmichael or trade one-liners with Jack E. Leonard. Though the caliber of guests only occasionally rises to a Bob Hope, it is also true that Douglas' program has become a profitable showcase for new talent. The producers boast that Comic...
Finances or Forks. Sometimes plucking recruits straight from high school, Gordy's International Talent Management Inc. puts new Motown performers through a show-biz finishing course for up to six months, teaching them how to dress, carry themselves, perk up their acts with a little choreography, and handle finances or even forks. Motown performers have many of their numbers custom-tooled by Gordy's own staff of songwriters and producers, led by the gifted team of Brian and Eddie Holland and Lament Dozier (Stop in the Name of Love, Baby Love). Where many recording companies market disks...