Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guest the following week. Haig has learned to evade by being, if Noah Webster will allow the word, circumloquacious. "I'm sometimes very good," he acknowledged, at ducking questions. Four times in 15 minutes he answered, "It's too early to say"-a damp response in show-biz terms, but then it often is too early to say. "Aren't you really pleased," asked George F. Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat of two Soviet clients, Syria and the P.L.O.? Haig has learned to listen carefully for imbedded assumptions in questions he is asked. Haig...
...place where TV, newspapers and books and photography and movies really meet." Charney's vid mag, the zippiest of the small field, suggests some piquant possibilities for reaching a wider audience. If snappy visuals can make the rag trade look exciting, consider what video could do with show biz. Variety on video could be the Ed Sullivan Show of the 1980s...
...raised eyebrow." But, he adds, commentary is self-defeating if the viewer says, "Now that I know how it came out, I know how they chose their pictures." With all three networks gussying up, or glitching up, their news, they need to reconsider whether analysis becomes opinionated show biz instead of a momentary oasis of reflective comment...
Leading the nymphet brigade is Aileen Quinn, 10, chosen over 9,000 other applicants for the title role. Quinn can crinkle her eyes, read her lines, sell a song, tap her toes just like a real live girl; but because she is all calculating show biz and no childlike naiveté, she impresses as a red-headed homuncula. Her elders don't fare much better. Albert Finney, who manages a scowl that comes out a secret smile, has the right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer...
Simple or sentimental, the responses to the 1981 Academy Awards proved that even in a crass and fickle realm like Hollywood, one certitude endures: audiences, including show-biz insiders, still love to be moved and to have their spirits lifted. - - By Gerald Gerald Clarke...