Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was the standard "Lucy wants to be in show biz." episode, in which she would finagle her way into husband Ricky Ricardo's act at the Tropicana nightclub. The writers wrote half an episode of actual sitcom dialogue and left the rest up to the Vaudevillean song and dance talents of Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel. From The Dick Van Dyke Show to the Cosby Show to The Brady Bunch, the "cast puts on a show" episode has become a standard...
...plots of Lucy's shows were usually kept simple. In addition to the "show biz" skits, each season you could count on seeing the wives making bets with the husbands or on Lucy arguing about money with Ricky or her buffoon banker, Mr. Mooney...
...rally celebrating his seventh anniversary in the White House last week, Ronald Reagan seemed determined to end his presidency with a flourish. "As they say in show biz," he urged his aides and appointees, "let's bring them to their feet with our closing act." But the State of the Union address that the President prepared to deliver this week was less a stirring aria than a medley of his greatest hits. It includes a ringing anthem to the Reagan revolution: the tax cuts -- including a call for new reduction in the rate on capital gains -- the five-year economic...
...that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could play an existential hero (Duck Amuck), a base canard (You Ought to Be in Pictures), a hard-breathing hoofer (Show Biz Bugs) or a World War II draft dodger (Draftee Daffy). Wily farceur, dynamite showman, he made 126 pictures before retiring in 1968. For years he could be seen only on kiddie TV shows or -- oh, the ignominy of it all! -- commercials. But now he has returned, pretty much in triumph...
...Buchan, one of tonight's contenders, says she has sometimes made $300 a week doing showcases. But "show biz, period, is so unpredictable" that she also works as a cashier. She got started in high school. "Would you believe I used to weigh 200 lbs.? And nobody liked me, nobody. Then I started with this lip-sync ensemble. They were trying to be real polite about my weight, but it was kind of an eyesore." She became svelte enough to play Lili von Shtupp, the hooker who sings I'm Tired in Blazing Saddles. Then she dumped the ensemble...