Word: biz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well, you know the old show-biz saying: Bad rehearsal, good show. Or, in this case, pretty good show. Like a lot of us who came of age in the late '40s and early '50s, Neil Simon obviously based his youthful fantasies about the glamorous life on newspaper reports of "playboys" (such a quaint word), who when they weren't racing fast cars spent their idle lives in pursuit of fast women. The script has about it a nice, sweet-dreaming quality, and animation director Jerry Rees, working for the first time on a feature, has invested The Marrying...
...become something of a Las Vegas institution. He has his own retail sports shops, is a frequent TV commentator and counts show-biz entertainers like Frank Sinatra and Dionne Warwick among his friends. His total earnings are estimated at $500,000 a year. Despite his wealth, there is talk every year -- and especially this year -- that Tarkanian is considering a move to the pros. With the NCAA continuing to pursue what Tarkanian calls its "vendetta" against him, the National Basketball Association might be a very attractive option. But close acquaintances say such a move at the moment is unlikely. Even...
...World News Tonight was one of the first to experiment with magazine-style elements, in features like its "Person of the Week." Yet the newscast hews most closely to the fading verities of network news: it pays the most attention to international affairs, seems the least enamored of show-biz gimmicks and human-interest fluff, and has the anchorman who most approximates the Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post in New York City. Some...
Americans, it is said, insist on reducing politics to show biz. And in the gulf, the theater of war was also, maybe mainly, a theater. As the New York Times's Malcolm Browne notes, "This war seemed to smell more of greasepaint than of death." In time, other odors may rise, as the nation weighs the war's cost in American dollars and Arab lives. But last week Schwarzkopf gave the U.S. a warrior to be proud of. Others might see glamour in the allied victory; he would carry the memory of the dead on his burly shoulders. His Great...
...desert," says Army Lieut. Colonel Robert Dawson, deputy director of the military broadcasting center in Los Angeles, which gathers the bulk of its programming from U.S. radio and TV stations. The armed forces usually pay a small fee for entertainment, but scores of producers and show-biz executives are donating their programs. Both the Super Bowl and last week's Grammy Awards were beamed in live. Taped segments of Los Angeles Laker games, boxing and wrestling matches, and favorites like The Arsenio Hall Show have also been shown. Disney even paid for a musical special, headlined by singer Greenwood, whose...