Word: biz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work will probably be more subtle than, say, Sean Penn doing a Coke commercial. ?We?re not in the advertising business; we?re in the publicity business,? notes PMK partner Pat Kingsley (the third PMK pooh-bah: Lois Smith). But by schmoozing with its new friends in the entertainment biz, says Dart, McCann-Erickson will be able to ?tip off its clients to trends that are emerging? -- in effect, a savvy little spy network at the heart of our cultural Zeitgeist. Synergy, baby, synergy...
...points a finger at Chili Palmer, pulls a pretend trigger and growls, "Bang, you dead. But you don't know when, do you?" Nah, but Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those...
...another massive merger in the Internet biz. Last week At Home picked up Excite; today Yahoo throws free home page service GeoCities into its shopping basket. The latest deal makes Yahoo much bigger, second only in reach to the mighty America Online. Quite a feat if you consider that no one's browser comes preloaded with a Yahoo home page. And what a validation for GeoCities, a company that seemed absurd as recently as last year -- will anyone ever make money on free web sites...
...impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story that can be as short as a gerbil joke or as epic as the Monica Follies. It attaches itself to any prominent person, no matter how conventional or innocent he may appear...
...SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Forbidden romance, raffish show-biz comedy, literary pranksterism and class warfare jostle joyously in this intricately imagined, exuberantly acted, cunningly directed tale of how the young, infinitely distracted Bard gets in touch with the genius he doesn't know he possesses. To Gwyneth Paltrow, muse of Miramax, we send our heart...