Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. "I did it," he insists, "because Richard Burton was sulking and couldn't say his lines. That was my first and last taste of show biz...
Joseph Brooks, the neophyte film maker responsible for this comedy, broke into show biz by scoring a few feature films (The Lords of Flatbush) and winning 21 awards as a Madison Avenue tunesmith. His most famous composition is You've Got a Lot to Live and Pepsi's Got a Lot to Give-a work that seems downright metaphysical when compared with You Light Up My Life, which has crept into the leading ten on Variety's list of top-grossing films...
...Disraeli is George Arliss or if Gregory Peck romanticizes the legend of Douglas MacArthur. But, as a number of psychologists have pointed out, the television screen provides most people with their visual knowledge of real events, such as President Kennedy's assassination, so that truth and show-biz demands are bound to get mixed up when two networks (ABC and CBS) morbidly return to the scene of the crime this fall and mimic its actuality, with docudramas on Lee Harvey Oswald. Because people are more apt to spot a poor job of makeup than a perversion of the facts...
...belts out, "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." We hear Channing's raps, Ella's scat-singing, Dietrich's off-keys and a host of other readily recognizable ladies who have captured America's fancy and/or heart. Turner has clearly made it in the drag queen biz by the finale of the number, judging by the roaring ovations on the screen and in the theater, and you find yourself somehow sharing Turner's bizarre triumph. He has come a long way from the suburbanite-catering hair salon and the endless hours before the mirror in lipstick and wigs...
Miller has also boosted newsstand sales by featuring a show-biz celebrity on the cover each month. The August cover offering a guide to 500 Southern California restaurants, pictures Rex Harrison awaiting dinner with a salivating smile-and an uncorked bottle of Chateau Latour '69. That, in the kingdom of Gallo is class...