Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right wing Reggie Leach and a minor League throw-in to California for all-star defenseman Carol Vadnais and another minor-leaguer. The Bruins defensive corps now have the oddly reminiscent first names of Bob, Carol, Ted, and Dallas. Who knows, maybe the quartet will go into the movie biz after they're through getting their teeth knocked out by Rod Gilbert slap shots...
Norton is especially good at conveying the casual desperation of someone scuffling along the fringes of show biz, biding his time and hoping for a break. Some of his scenes have the unhurried air of good improvisation. Others are burdened by some awfully thick dialogue. At one point, Cisco's girl (Karen Black) demands, "It's me or dealing; make up your mind...
...average drive-in patron, according to one study, pops for 49? worth of refreshments; the indoor theaters count on 22? per customer. That adds up to approximately $800 million a year, or close to 40% of the theater owner's total take. In 1971, that's movie biz...
...clear case of the same sort of show biz is another new work in the Jeffrey repertory, Alvin Ailey's The Mingus Dancers, based on a grouping of ponderously orchestrated pieces by fabled Jazz Bassist Charlie Mingus. The work is an odd mixture of five abstractly modern sections and four stagey "vaudeville" routines, some comic, some gloomily Brechtian in flavor. They include a morose parade of grinning soldiers in clownlike, whiteface makeup, a lady from Spain heel-clacking through a campy flamenco, a pair of policemen mock-dueling with nightsticks. The vaudevilles have no discernible relationship to the abstract...
...Jesus, or confirmed the dark suspicions of Oswald Spengler, who liked to think that the twilight of Western civilization will be marked not by true religion, but by an upsurge of fervid religiosity. Jesus Christ Superstar, the rock opera that is rocking Broadway's new season, is show biz with a twist: Director Tom O'Horgan, who was influenced by Olsen & Johnson, has made it into a sort of Heavenzapoppin...