Word: biz
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...that Rat Race avoids piety entirely. It ends with a near orgy of unpersuasive show-biz sentimentality. But up till then it's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote through--come to think of it--a similarly bleak and comically perilous American landscape...
...production is full, clear and incorrigibly boppin?- Leiber and Stoller, out by the Pacific, showing the Atlantic boys how it?s done. Ertegun was smart enough to know he wanted not just the record but its begettors. So he hired L&S as independent producers - the first in music-biz history...
...some contingent truths are told about the Therrians' relationship, which is troubled by the rise of his career, the decline of hers and the question of having a child. Their guests are largely played by the auteurs' acting pals; all the characters have something to do with show biz. In other words, egos can go from bluster to fragility, from savagery to sympathy, in the blink of an eye--without revealing which is the real emotion, which the fake...
...music biz, promotional merchandise is known as swag, and David (Beno) Benveniste, 30, is the swagmeister. His Streetwise Concepts & Culture gives away thousands of T shirts, stickers, posters and CD samplers to "street teams" of young volunteers (speaking of free) who spread the buzz to other kids in skate parks, high schools and concert parking lots. It's peer-to-peer marketing done with minimal investing and maximum effect. "Everybody wants free stuff," he says with a laugh. "And if a16-year-old has a backpack full of cool gear to hand out, he feels like a king...
...Thailand as efficiently as, say, artichokes in California. Tongchart supplies wholesalers as far north as Chiang Rai and as far south as Hat Yai. Some of them, in turn, are exporting to places like Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. The meat and potatoes, so to speak, of the insect biz are grasshoppers, beetles and bamboo worms. Some delectables, such as spiders, remain specialty items. "They're big, black and hairy," says Nusara, and she ought to know: she once enjoyed tarantulas on a stick. "They're good food, but let's face it. Bugs have...