Word: biz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shakespeare in Love fancifully retells the creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...
...course, the "major" stations aren't as varied in their programming, but that's why they're "major"-they capture important sectors of the radio market by offering a relatively restricted range of extremely popular songs. That's the key in the radio biz-specialize to capitalize. Those of us who are more serious about enjoying a wider range of "black"-and "white"-music must, and do, look elsewhere. Harvard students should try tuning in to WHRB 95.3, or to other great Boston stations (especially collegiate ones) like WERS 88.9. JOEL B. POLLAK...
...they come? On the stage they make less money, have to work harder and risk getting creamed by the critics in a rare sector of show biz where critics can still matter. A Short answer: "The theater," he says, "is the ultimate reconfirmation of why you even started out to be an actor." The Canadian-born comic began his career on the Toronto stage, appearing in shows like Godspell (with Gilda Radner) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown before moving to the U.S., where he became a chameleonlike star on SCTV and Saturday Night Live...
...chanteuses past. So a local talent scout (Michael Caine) thrusts the kid onstage for her, and the film's, moment of magic. Horrocks' metamorphosis from starling to star is worth cherishing. But stay around for Caine's bilious rendition of Roy Orbison's It's Over--screw-you show biz at its most show-bizarre...
...might seem to be show biz--all the more because the speaker is Rob Reiner, the onetime regular on All in the Family and now a renowned movie director. But the speech, before the American Heart Association, is only tangentially about Reiner's childhood. More directly, he is imploring his listeners to help get out the vote for Proposition 10, a California ballot initiative that would tax tobacco to fund programs for preschoolers. "Politicians like to say children are the future," Reiner says, "but what have they done for them? Everyone knows that the first three years of life...