Word: biz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gelbart started early in show biz when his father, barber to the stars, persuaded client Danny Thomas to give Larry, then 16, a shot writing comedy. Gelbart, who has called writing "the perfect medium for shy extroverts," was soon a scribe for Jack Paar, Red Buttons and Bob Hope. As a writer on the legendary Caesar's Hour, Gelbart "popped jokes like popcorn," recalls colleague Carl Reiner. "Once Sid [Caesar] got a call from Bob Hope, offering an oil well to get Larry back...
...Mendes' notoriously dark world view will create low marital expectations. --She's already had her show-biz starter-marriage, to director James Threapleton. --Judging by her movies, Winslet likes acting out roles when naked...
DiSpirito and crew interviewed some 3,000 potential staff members, many of whom, unsurprisingly, had show-biz dreams. "There are some actors and actresses who have waited here, and every night they're Ethel Merman, playing to the cameras," says Rocco's maitre d', Alex Corrado. "I just try to be myself." It doesn't hurt that Corrado's self happens to be a rotund, New Jersey--accented Italian-American actor (he was eaten by wild boars in Hannibal) who earlier in the evening was singing opera in front of the restaurant. Says Burnett: "This cast would do great...
...singers, will not even have judges, just an audience vote.) But what the Idolettes sometimes don't understand is that Idol's meanness makes the apotheosis of its winner all the sweeter (and thus more marketable). The welcome exception is Born to Diva, a blessedly catty celebration of show-biz egocentrism. Its female belters may not be as talented as Idol's, but they are adept in the diva-esque arts of eye rolling, backbiting and referring to oneself in the third person. That will serve them well in show biz, where they will discover--like people around the world...
...essay in contempt--the movie's title suggests a corrective fart aimed at the ghost of folk pop--but what's the fun in that? These gifted improv-ers of course locate the ludicrous. (Lynch does a roguish parody of everything that is creepy and false about show-biz poise.) But Guest also trusts any actor's tendency to fall in love with his character--and find elaborate rationales for goofy behavior. "There had been abuse in my family," Higgins solemnly recalls. "But it was mostly musical...