Word: biz
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...Chan are among the actors who started by taking a few falls.) Tsang, whose father, Tsang Kai-wing, had been a professional footballer in Hong Kong, had himself played for Hong Kong's team at the Asian Youth Games in 1970. That athleticism propelled him quickly up the show-biz ranks, winning him parts as an actor and, eventually, the chance to direct. He broke out as the director of 1982's Aces Go Places, a martial-arts spy spoof revolving around a diamond heist. Starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang, the film was at the time...
...been so kind to comics like Franken and showmen like Limbaugh. "What you have," says Publishers Weekly editor Steven Zeitchik, "is the marrying of the interest in political books with the culture of celebrity." Even the noncomedians in the bunch use the tropes of comedy and show biz: sarcasm, hyperbole and shock. Britney kissing Madonna, Coulter saying we should convert Muslims and kill their leaders--hey, it's all publicity...
...antihero. Like a film noir epic, this is a fable of violent men, mean motives and surly patter, told in flashback, and narrated by a dead man. This artful assembly of photos, film outtakes and TV clips is all the more fascinating for being--within the confines of show-biz mythmaking--true...
...Kanfer, a former TIME editor, presents her, Ball does fit one show-biz type well: the star whose early troubles (father dies young, family suffers financial ruin) fed an insecurity and need to please that paradoxically emboldened her to take risks. But as important as her talent and drive, Kanfer shows, was Arnaz, who handled her business savvily and smoothed over her tendency to bully co-stars and crew (though he also made her miserable with his boozing and philandering...
...dramas might be Japan's cultural ambassadors to the world. Japanese dramas are often the first medium to discuss controversial social issues, such as teen marriage or sexual harassment, and even to introduce the latest Japanese fashion trends. But unlike many of her peers in the Japanese TV biz, Kitagawa doesn't try to track the country's famously ephemeral trends with a magnifying glass and a questionnaire. Instead she goes straight to the source for inspiration. "I don't think too much about the current situation in Japan," she says. "My marriage, having a child, those are the things...