Word: biz
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...vain this season. Some say the trick is to scale back the shows and their costs. But Quilters, a genial bit of Americana, lasted only 24 performances. Some advocate looking for a beloved story, but The Three Musketeers managed only nine performances. Some call for a celebration of show biz itself, but Harrigan 'n Hart, a tribute to two founding fathers of the modern musical, barely lasted a week. Some call for presold songs, performed in low-key review style, but Leader of the Pack is struggling. And some contend the musical should reach for the opposite extreme, dealing with...
...disappointed" when she was convicted of perjury last week for lying to a grand jury about a 2001 shoot-out involving her manager and another friend. She's got to be frontin'. The risqué rapper, whose star has tarnished a bit in recent years, is facing the ultimate show-biz pick-me-up: jail time. What's more, it's for protecting her crew with a completely hopeless lie. She said she didn't see the men at the scene of the crime, even though a security camera had footage of one of them holding an elevator door...
...began life as accountants," observes Blanchett. Today, Kapur is as comfortable at a business conference or giving a speech about fossil fuels as he is attending a film festival. "Actually, I believe that all creative people are schizophrenic," he says. Kapur's interest in the business of show biz runs to helping set up the Indian Film Festival and speaking for the Confederation of Indian Industry, for which he champions Asia as the promised land of cinema. "With the rise of Asian consumerism, in a decade 70% of all movie revenues will come from Asia," Kapur declares. "Asian culture will...
Different media have different demands too. The kid market is big business on TV, with full-time factories like Nickelodeon, ABC Family and the Disney Channel churning out moppet entertainment. Nickelodeon has 14 scouts traveling the country trying to find the next young stars. But the show-biz sass that works on sitcoms may look grotesque on the big screen. Those reflexes anticipate what a director wants, when maybe what he wants is to be surprised. "You don't want some actor child who does everything perfectly and doesn't have a childlike aura," says Campbell Scott, who directed...
...Clea and the grandiose, poetry-spouting, heavily medicated Thad ratchet from party to party, from mansion to beach house to resort, propping one another up. They're identically damaged souls, orbiting one another faster and faster, out of control, lost in space. There's plenty of sharp, funny show-biz business here. The celebrity cameos come thick and fast (Sharon Stone! Rob Reiner!), and Thad's guest spot on Starwatch is hilariously embarrassing--he has to wear alien makeup and say things like "I believe ... we are being appropriated by the Vorbalidian System." But Wagner boldly goes beyond satire...