Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training. Cronkite says with a grin: "If I'd been Dutch Cronkite and stayed with baseball, I might be President now." Instead, this week he is interviewing the President. For Cronkite those game broadcasts were valuable experience in ad-libbing, but also an introduction to show biz in the presentation of the news, a subject that disturbs him to this...
Experts in the beauty biz, asked to describe her, flex themselves and back up a little for running room in order to reach suitable heights of hyperbole. Says Brian Burdine, catalogue coordinator for Bloomingdale's: "There is only one supreme, reigning top beauty, and that is Brooke Shields." Photographer Francesco Scavullo, who has been shooting Brooke since before her first birthday, says that she "was just born beautiful, she stays beautiful, and she gets more beautiful every month." Way Bandy, perhaps the top makeup man in the fashion dodge, is reminded of Elizabeth Taylor. "They don't look...
...Memorial, followed by this week's succession of parties and balls. But that was only the televised surface. Reagan's own final preparations for his new post were both more personal and more businesslike: an emotional farewell to California, where he had risen from obscurity to show-biz celebrity and political power, and the final drafting in Washington of a series of directives designed to get him off to a fast start on mending a battered economy...
...Brooklyn, one of those modifiers is inappropriate. The only thing "modern day" about Diamond's Jazz Singer is the setting and the overstuffed musical orchestration. All the rest, from story (nice Jewish boy brings down paternal wrath by forsaking tradition and trying to make it big in show biz) to score (love songs, fun songs, even marching songs), is stubbornly vintage. Diamond even pops up in blackface for a fast comic turn; about the only act of Jolson's that he doesn't try is going down on one knee...
...suspects that the mystery was just an excuse, an occasion for the writing team to get off a lot of good, if rather broad show-biz jokes. Taylor and Novak, who plays her co-star and longtime rival, have a bitchy catfight, full of gags about having two faces and two chins. Then there is Curtis as a relentlessly crass producer. "Get me the Coast!" he shouts into the phone at an uncomprehending English operator. Pause, and then an anguished yelp: "What do you mean, which coast?" But perhaps the high point of this nonsense comes when Taylor, who appears...