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...narrow margin and did even better among slightly older baby boomers. This year Clinton ran ahead of Bush in every age group, but his largest margin was among those between 18 and 24. One reason was Clinton's limber courtship of the young in show-biz terms -- playing his sax on the Arsenio Hall show, for instance, and featuring rock music at his rallies. But recent high school and college graduates facing a bleak employment market had more substantive reasons for abandoning the G.O.P...
...film takes Sinatra from his childhood days in New Jersey through his back-from-retirement concert at Madison Square Garden in 1974. Most of the familiar movie-bio cliches are here -- young Frank argues with skeptical parents over his show-biz dreams ("I can do this! I can be someone!") -- but so is a lot of flavorful, crisply told detail. The young singer goes on the road as part of a quartet put together by Major Bowes; picks up work in a club where he has to wheel his own piano accompanist around the room; is discovered by bandleader Harry...
...movie is silliest when show-biz celebrities parade on and off the stage as if it were Impressionists Night at the Improv. Sinatra gets marital advice from Humphrey Bogart, rushes to Sammy Davis Jr.'s bedside after his car accident and cavorts with the Rat Pack in a steam room at the Sands Hotel. The scenes between Sinatra and the Kennedy family are the phoniest of all, but they do open up the touchy subject of Sinatra's mob links. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Joe Kennedy asks Sinatra for help with "our friends in Chicago who control the unions...
That aging barb about the venerable Hollywood talent agency and its notoriously low profile may no longer apply. In purchasing the smaller, hipper and younger Triad agency, with 50 agents and its own show-biz clients, the Morris agency pulled off a snazzy triple play. With new talent such as screen stud Bruce Willis and hot-shot musicians Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Morris instantly juices up its soft film and music divisions, raises its celebrity quotient and re-establishes its place on the top tier of Tinseltown's talent brokers, along with International Creative Management (which...
Rush Limbaugh is all politics, all show biz -- and all success...