Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glad to know that Linda Ronstadt is not pigeon-toed in real life [March 22], because she is one of the very few show biz types that I would love to bring home to Mom. Not only has she survived the rock-'n'-roll treadmill with amazing grace but she has remained completely human under the media's celebrity microscope. If she finds moviemaking not quite comfortable, she can rest assured that we will all settle for just her music...
...Today and ABC's Good Morning America. Produced by former GMA Soft-News Whiz George Merlis, the new Morning will feature Bill Kurtis, a peppy, popular newsman imported from Chicago, in place of Charles Kuralt, as well as such other contributors as ex-GMA Show-Biz Correspondent Pat Collins and regular business, science and medicine reporters. Merlis denies that Morning will be a confection like GMA. Explains a CBS spokesman: "We will interview celebrities only if they are in the news. For instance, if Larry Hagman were made head of the American Heart Association, then we'd interview...
...Assante) and hires the rebel leader's old Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues, but it is not quite stupid enough to be truly funny. Interestingly, there are several nice, quirky moments of domestic comedy involving the protagonist, his grandfather and his live-in lady in an innocent but funny menage a trois. The old gent is played by the great...
Certainly they are the easiest to get on the radio-"AC" radio, that is, music biz vernacular for "adult contemporary" stations, whose regimented play lists have turned Fogerty's song for everyone into ditties for anyone. On the '60s Top 40 radio, it was possible to hear Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, the Beatles, the Four Tops and Bob Dylan all in the space of an hour. Nowadays, says Neil Bogart, president of Boardwalk Entertainment Co., "they play music for the 14-to-18 audience, the 30-to-35, the 50-to-60, or for white, black, chicano...
...industry loses 20% of its revenue just from home taping. Jack Reinstein, treasurer of Electra/Asylum/ Nonesuch Records, calculates 400 million albums were taped off the air in 1980 alone, "without any compensation to the artist, the songwriters and publishers, the musicians, the record company." Huffs Kal Rudman, professional music biz pundit: "It's grand larceny! It's outrageous...