Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's more than mere show-biz flair here. Sawyer is a fully credentialed reporter who covered Three Mile Island and the Iran hostage crisis. Later she demonstrated smarts and interviewing skills as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. As a member of the formidable 60 Minutes team since 1984, she has traveled from the garbage mounds of Cairo to the heart of the AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable...
...Costners were no kind of show-biz family. "I always figured that people on the screen were intended to be there" Costner says. "Acting was something other people did." Then, in the middle of a boring accounting class for his business major in college, he saw an ad for a production of Rumpelstiltskin. "The moment I decided to be an actor, I never looked back. I never breathed an easier breath. I relaxed. Then all I had to do was learn...
Part of the Kronos allure is that the group spices up technically assured string playing with slick show-biz trappings. The four frequently perform in color-coordinated outfits, and their concerts are often akin to performance art. Beyond that, the Kronos is a resolute, almost fanatic champion of new music. It has given world premieres of more than 200 works, including five so far this year. "When people come to a Kronos concert," says Jeanrenaud, "they know they will hear something that requires a reaction, even if they don't like what they are hearing. You can't just...
...SHOW BIZ: Indiana Jones is back -- and better than ever...
There's genius and show biz, comedy and flirtatiousness in the designs of Patrick Kelly, a Mississippi college dropout who ranks with the best in the field...