Word: biz
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Fifteen or 20 people showed up but the momentum slowly built. Patti Smith showed up next, a local poet with advanced show-biz genes, just beginning to build her legend by knocking them dead at the St. Mark's Poetry Project. With guitarist Lenny Kaye (read his tribute to Joey here) and band, she was added to the weekend lineup and for the first time, the place was packed...
...real-life Broadway crowd, The Producers is a gift from the show-biz gods. For years, most of the street's big musical hits have been operatic British imports. The Lion King was a great homegrown boost, but Disney and Julie Taymor were, and still are, outsiders. The Producers is a product and a celebration of the kind of musical-comedy showmanship that doesn't exist much anymore. "It's as if this is that one last musical from the 1950s, and everybody forgot to produce it," says one of the show's producers, Tom Viertel. "And now here...
...combat engineer in the European theater in World War II is still satirizing Hitler, without apologies. "You can't compete with a despot on a soapbox," he notes. "The best thing is to make him ludicrous." And now he may be seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across the vast East River to Manhattan, to Broadway. That...
...Where there's a yoga blitz, there must be yoga biz. To dress for a class, you need only some old, loose-fitting clothes - and since you perform barefoot, no fancy footwear. Yet Nike and J.Crew have developed exercise apparel, as has Turlington. For those who prefer stay-at-home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's vhs best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff...
...Bands on the Run, in which real unsigned bands compete to make the most money on an eight-week tour, the entertainment business becomes entertainment. It's a breed of programming suited to an age when ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY readers and E! watchers are increasingly attuned to the mercantile biz end of show biz. (Is action director Michael Bay over budget? Is Disney chief Michael Eisner the most powerful man in Hollywood?) "Kids today are 10 times more sophisticated about the business than they were even five years ago," says Making the Band executive producer Ken Mok. "People know more about...