Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic...
...Jack and his two much-older sisters. The business thrived, and the family moved to a bigger place. His sister June left home when Nicholson was four to be an Earl Carroll showgirl in Miami. Jack, bright and funny in school, skipped a grade. He made his unofficial show-biz debut at ten on the stage of Roosevelt Grammar School singing Managua Nicaragua...
...show biz world of sport, Jackson wants the record to show that he is a serious citizen, something more than yesterday's mixed-up kid grown up to be today's hero. Success and psychotherapy have helped give him a strong sense of himself as a person as well as an athlete and celebrity. He means to enjoy all the roles available...
...tennis from a defensive base-line game into an aggressive, serve-and-smash attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...
Died. Billy DeWolfe, 67, veteran stage and screen comedian who started out in show biz as a theater usher; of cancer; in Los Angeles. DeWolfe and his drooping mustache appeared in numerous vapid Hollywood comedies (the first: Dixie, in 1943) before hitting the big time with an impersonation of Mrs. Murgatroyd, a matronly tippler, in Blue Skies (1946) and later with a performance as a stuffy diplomat in Call Me Madam (1953). His successes on the stage included his role as J.B. Biggley in the London production and New York revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...