Word: biz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Show biz may be full of nut cases, but it has this saving grace: an ability to pull itself up short, take a hard look in the mirror and bust out laughing. When the danger of inside jokiness is avoided, the result can be Tootsie or Noises Off. Or Soapdish...
Anonymity would be death to the heavenly creatures on parade in PARIS IS BURNING, Jennie Livingston's thrilling documentary. They are the gentlemen of the Harlem drag balls. They wear frocks to die for; they vogue on the floor like Madonna dancers. A few have passed beyond show biz. A frail baby-voiced blond named Venus Xtravaganza says, "I wanna be a rich, pampered white woman," as she curls up in a tacky bedroom furnished only by her dreams...
...film, directed by video phenom Alek Keshishian, trails Madonna through Japan, North America and Europe as she pursues her hobby (rock star supreme) and her full-time job (do-it-yourself mythmaker). This is show biz, remember, where image elbows achievement out of the frame. Madonna knows this. She is the most self-aware, perhaps the sanest, of celebrities. So Truth or Dare doesn't dwell on what she has done. We know she has done plenty, done well and, in her AIDS-relief fund raising, done good. Keshishian shows us what Madonna thinks she is -- and what she, driven...
...group than other producers are," says Cole. Even so, while C+C Music Factory uses vocalists Zelma Davis, Freedom Williams and the scantly credited Martha Wash, their names appear only in the production notes and liner material. It's C+C that -- as they say in the movie biz -- puts its name above the title. The attractive Davis and Williams appear on the album cover, but, to the uninitiated, they could very well be C+C. "I don't really want to be a star," Cole insists. "I just want to be successful. Robert and I would both like...
...Yorkers are roughly 35% more likely than Angelenos to go for goo. They are also more likely to arrive at a restaurant straight from the office, eat, then run to a show or to the suburbs -- or back to the office. Such behavior is considered uncivilized in Show-Biz Land, where tight schedules are spurned. "How can you eat in the same shirt you have worn all day?" sniffs an urbane Los Angeles diner...