Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dress as Queen Elizabeth, Frankenstein and Elvis Presley and wander around the stage. Whether this represents a display of unquenchable energy, the response of a sometime wallflower suddenly encouraged to be the life of the party, or just overripe showmanship, it makes for the best show, and the best biz, on the pop scene today...
Entertainers elicit an extraordinary range of responses from their audiences-admiration, love, even secular idolatry. They ought to be praised and analyzed for the gifts that cause such reactions. But these days it is not enough for performers to be gifted or versatile. As a new wave of show-biz biographies gloomily illustrates, stars must now be pumped up into symbols of their profession or indictments of their society. It was in just this spirit of distorted inflation that Albert Goldman last year took Lenny Bruce from shlepper to counterculture shaman in 13 uneasy chapters...
Dollop of Charm. Yet it was Sir Noel's last great commercial success, and it has its virtues-notably as a study of that curious and enduring institution, the show-biz entourage. Like most stars, Essendine cannot live with the fatuities of his followers. Nor can he be without their faithful responses to every shift in pressure registered by his absurdly delicate inner barometer. For their part, his manager, his producer, his ex-wife and the women who will not be denied his bed are ever willing to allow him to quell their exasperation with a dollop of charm...
...years since her film debut in An American in Paris, Caron looked fit enough as she rehearsed on roller skates for the 42nd Gala de l'Union des Artistes, a Paris benefit in behalf of retired entertainers. The show, which takes place May 23, features show-biz folk in a circus setting and includes Actresses Romy Schneider as a horsewoman and Sydne Rome as a lion tamer. Caron, 43, who first laced on skates just three weeks ago, has been wheeling about every day and, according to bystanders, is improving fast. The former ballerina still seems a trifle apprehensive...
Persistent complaints and suggestions about the N.B.A. range from the publishers' charge that the awards do not sell books to the preposterous notion that the official ceremonies should resemble the Academy Awards, with the myrmidons of show biz whooping things up on network TV. But the N.B.A. lists of nominees and winners over the past 26 years could serve as a remarkably concise index to the quality of postwar American literature and the broad concerns of American life...