Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plausibility of this film with a wonderfully implausible premise owes much to its richly realized background. Hoffman lent it some of his autobiography: a young actor struggling to be serious in the alternately flighty and tough world of show biz. Michael Dorsey is the kind of fellow who overthinks the role of a tomato on a commercial and quits an off-Broadway show because he does not want his character to die where the director wants him to. He is, as his agent (wonderfully played by Director Pollack) tells him, "a cult failure." Michael's friends include his playwright...
...What we have here is not only dripping but gripping stuff, whose essence might be summarized as: Can a 57-year-old Westport, Conn., salad-dressing manufacturer find satisfaction as a hotshot race-car driver, successful political activist, prizewinning movie director, solid-state sex symbol, show-biz iconoclast and possibly the most commanding male presence in films during the past three decades? If that sounds just a touch overheated, never fear. We have Paul Newman to play the lead...
...solemn Hollywood establishmentarians who feel that superstars should have Rolls-Royces, by driving a series of VWs hopped up with racing engines. He and Joanne made a point 21 years ago of exiling themselves to Westport, a woodsy exurb, which, although prosperous and arty, had no connection to show biz...
...tells him that he did well in an hourlong nuclear-freeze interview for Ted Turner's Cable News Network; he is not sure. On the air he knows his material cold, but some instinct for humility in the face of serious matters keeps him from injecting any show biz into his delivery. He can't or won't speechify, and while listeners who agree with him nod their heads, those who don't are not convinced...
...this be happening? With obsessive drive, a brilliant mastery of automotive engineering and management techniques, and a maverick's allure, De Lorean, barely out of his 30s, had risen to rule the Pontiac and Chevrolet divisions of giant General Motors. He had charmed his way into the glitzier show-biz celebrity circles, dating the likes of Candice Bergen, Nancy Sinatra and Ursula Andress before selecting his third wife, Actress-Model Cristina Ferrare, 32 (he is 57). Impatient with the corporate world's slow decision making, he had quit GM to race down a faster track. He had persuaded Britain...