Word: biz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memories that allow young Lahr to mold humanity around the trite-tragic skeleton that his father's life seems to have been. For instance, there is Lahr as a budding vaudevillian putting makeup on his collar even when unemployed so everyone will know he is in show biz. One is touched by the physical fact that his left wrist was permanently larger than the right from breaking repeated pratfalls. And a fine moment comes when a wino outside the theater holds out a dollar saying "Here, Bert, and thanks." As a young intellectual, John Lahr is eloquent, too, about...
...Carson prefers to stand out as the star of his own show, throwing out quips and gags, staging frequent offerings from the Mighty Carson Art Players, and frequently upstaging his guests. Bishop, on the other hand, uses his Los Angeles base to good advantage. He concentrates primarily on show-biz types, often letting them perform spontaneously...
...response to Hee Haw seemed ho-hum in Nashville-the holy see of Grand Ole Opry and country show biz -then it seemed likely that the cast would be greeted anywhere else in America by bags of chicken feathers and cauldrons of tar. In a TV summer season stolen by Armstrong and Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite...
...Landmark," boasted TV spots for Howard Hughes' 476-room Landmark Hotel, whose qualifications for uniqueness include "the world's longest swimming pool" (240 ft., shaped like a hot-water bottle) and the only high-altitude casino (on the 29th floor) in town. The usual spate of show-biz celebrities turned up to collect souvenir plastic orange blossoms at the opening -but Billionaire Hughes was nowhere to be seen...
...freelance writing for books and magazines but turned to radio and TV when he discovered that he could not make a predictable living in print. He was concocting material for Arthur Godfrey, Garry Moore and others when CBS News President Fred Friendly in 1964 hired him away from show biz...