Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Garfinkle became titans in the tax-shelter business. Osserman, described by associates as the "brains" of the operation, was known to promise new clients that they would never have to pay another dime in taxes. In 1975 the two lawyers joined forces with Producers Meyer and Friedman, whose show-biz connections helped catch the stars as investors. A year later, the group leased 22,000 acres in Wyoming, ostensibly to develop coal deposits. The investors signed notes specifying that for every dollar they put up in cash, four additional dollars would be taken out of their anticipated coal-mining profits...
That, of course, is what show biz calls star quality. Darci's precocious fame is not without precedent: at City Ballet, Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland all came to prominence at about her age. Still the clamor for Darci has surprised the company-which promotes its repertory rather than its stars-and Balanchine. He has forbidden interviews with her. Darci's career is only a few months old, yet her parents are already beset by promoters who are seeking endorsements. That's how fast a new sunbeam travels...
...songs all together, clustered in sections that form a kind of rudimentary sociocultural chronicle. In "Arrivals," a Jewish immigrant (Jerry Zaks) just off the boat sings The Yankee Doodle Boy with an accent you could ladle with a chicken soup spoon. Later, as a fully assimilated show-biz tintype, he repeats the same number á la George M. Cohan...
Since his early days, Klein has enjoyed a varied, successful show biz career. He has done Broadway: first, a small part in The Apple Tree; his latest, the lead role and a Tony nomination in Neil Simon's They're Playing Our Song. He has made records; out-of-print classics like Mind over Matter and Child of the Fifties and, upcoming, an all music and song collection for Casablanca (to be followed by more comedy discs). He is oft-seen on television: HBO shows, Johnny Carson, and two NBC specials this fall, with guests Rodney Dangerfield, Jane Curtin, Judd...
...Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Reagan mingled with old California backers and show-biz friends such as Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston, and got a surprising phone call from Ted Kennedy, offering his cooperation...