Word: biz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...errors in conception and construction that the musical never overcomes. In essence, the Marx Brothers were absurdists, comic illogicians who disrupted routines, tipped the daily balance sheet of existence awry, and exploded surprises like firecrackers. By contrast, the musical is a routine Broadway blueprint of the oft-repeated show-biz saga. Here it all is-indigent beginnings, ineffectual father, indomitable, solicitous and insufferable stage mother, fleabag hotels, one-night stands, the big chance with the kingpin producer, a smash hit at vaudeville's old Valhalla, the Palace, and at the final fadeout, on to Hollywood and immortality. The plot...
...shows beginning in July. If they succeed, the boys could be moved into the ABC year-round lineup in January 1971. For onetime top-ten TV headliners to gamble on a summer-replacement audition requires "tremendous guts," marvels one ABC executive. Tommy himself admits that some of his show-biz colleagues might consider the deal "demeaning," and that off-season substitute series are "generally so much sheep...
...Show-Biz Instincts. Though Murphy will undoubtedly be an early choice in the professional basketball draft, some scouts feel that he is not tall enough to make it in the pros. Perhaps not, when he is just standing there-5 ft. 10 in. of him relaxed and at rest. But when he uncoils into one of his fantastic jumps, he is clearly a man to look up to. Rival coaches simply shake their heads when he blocks the shots of players nearly a foot taller; Murphy's spring is so remarkable that in several games he has actually been...
...pros do not book his pre-game show, Murphy can satisfy his show-biz instincts elsewhere. Raised in Norwalk, Conn., by a 6-ft. mother who once played on a touring basketball team called the Bomberettes, he was a high school All-America as well as the state champion baton twirler. For two seasons, he and his baton were part of the half-time show at the Buffalo Bills' home football games. If unable to continue twirling for the Bills after graduation, Murphy will spend his spare moments at what he says is his favorite sport: roller skating...
...pats him on the back and says, "You're a beauty, Dan." in this voice that lets you know that he's seen a lot of them. More than eight million people, you realize, have been zapped by The World's Greatest in his twenty-year career in Show Biz-he's seen a lot and he knows a live one, a prime mark, when he sees...