Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like new cars that have been damaged in shipment. Repairs so far have cost Balch $60,000, but in some cases he is able to get higher prices for the hammered cars. "After all, you've got to pay more for a car that has been in show biz," says Balch with a devilish wink. He claims that many customers ask specifically for the repaired cars, and a few have even insisted on buying his props, dents...
...main thematic line is straightforward: as McKay comes ever-closer to winning his prize, he must rely ever-more on TV and other mass media to win his audience, in the process becoming less of a statesman, but a potent show-biz vote-getter. However, whether director Michael Ritchie and screenwriter Jeremy Larner feel this process necessary, and McKay's actions morally justified, is unclear. In the context of easy ironies that the film develops, in which all men are power-hungry or venal on a solely personal level, it is foolish to invoke moral considerations at all: though...
When the Stones open at Madison Square Garden in New York on July 24, it will be the climax of their seventh U.S. tour, which has been, in purely show-biz terms, a vast success. Every concert they have given has been packed solid, the tickets all sold weeks in advance; in San Francisco, the barter price for a $5.00 ticket was an ounce of grass and seven grams of hash, or, from scalpers, $50 cash; by Chicago, the price for a $6.50 ticket had risen to $70-accompanied by the rumor that someone had printed and sold a quarter...
...born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in Flatbush. His father, Martin Konigsberg, had a light brush with show biz - he once served as a waiter at Sammy's Bowery Follies - but spent most of his life dabbling in the jewelry business. A poor boy in the urban maze is usually a constant dreamer. Sometimes he dreams of sex: young Allen Stewart, as Woody recalls, was preoccupied with girls whose bodies wouldn't quit probably because his own seemed to give up when he was 14. Sometimes he dreams of assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried...
...addition to his movie work. Woody put together his first record album (based on his nightclub routines) and wrote his first play-Don't Drink the Water, about a typical New Jersey family mistaken for spies in Eastern Europe. He had acquired the ultimate badge of show-biz success: his first divorce. Harlene later sued him for defamation of character, citing his repeated insults on the Tonight Show. ("The Museum of Natural History took her shoe and, based on her measurement, they reconstructed a dinosaur.") In 1966 Allen was married again, this time to Actress Louise Lasser, daughter...