Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongly resent your description of Senator Henry Jackson as "lackluster" I March 15] and noncharismatic. What do you want, an entertainer or a President? Good grief, why are Americans so hooked on show biz...
...nerve. The kind they have lots of -too much of-in television is exhibited in its ripest form this week (NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) by Jack Lemmon, starring in a remake of John Osborne's The Entertainer. Archie Rice, that talentless, foul-spirited denizen of show biz's low depths, is, of course, the creation and sole property of Laurence Olivier-perhaps the greatest performance in a nonclassic role by the man who is our age's prince of players. There is no hope of duplicating what he did in that part. So it is hard...
Much of the party simply cannot take Carter at face value. Show-biz analogies are reached for to define him. His frequent references to love remind derisive critics of that 1930s musical Of Thee I Sing, in which Presidential Candidate Wintergreen croons that "love is sweeping the country." To others, Carter summons the image of the plastic politician in the film Nashville who broadcasts but never appears onscreen. Yet to many others, he is a believable leader with eclectic policies. Carter welcomes the ordeal of the primaries because he knows he must prove himself. "I want to be tested...
...acts--is this sense of showmanship: all of the actors and actresses want to make it big in entertainment. Where the plot doesn't hold up, the Hollywood fantasies or the fact that everybody thinks of themselves as entertainers carry things through. The idea that this is show biz makes some of the songs and dances a little less adventitious than they normally are in musicals. The chorus-line number, for instance, which has to be stuck in every year, is introduced by Preston, who says, "C' mon people, let's make movies!" And it isn't just a kick...
...same may be said of the best of the new variety hours, RICH LITTLE (NBC, Monday 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which uses its star's talents as an impressionist very shrewdly. Since there is no one Little cannot imitate, there is no area of show biz he and his cohorts cannot satirize. The program is up against killer competition (Rhoda and Phyllis) but well worth channel switching to catch...