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...Beatles, however, don't want to hear any of this. Can't hear anything else, at this tick of the clock except brassy, trashy, junk-jingling, stage-stomping Madonna, who has been world famous for almost two months. Just now she is the hottest draw in show biz. Michael Jackson? History. Prince? The Peloponnesian Wars. Cyndi Lauper? Last week's flash, and besides, if you wanna be like Cyndi, you have to dye your hair orange and fuchsia, and your parents freak. No, Madonna is the full moon you see at this bend in the river, and never mind what...
...hard little hearts of all of the Jennifers, and quite a few of the Kevins, ache for Madonna is another question. Big-time show biz is three- fourths mass hysteria, especially when teenagers and rock music are involved, and anyone who thinks he can explain it fully is dreaming. But incredibly lucky timing is clearly part of the Madonna craze. As it happens, few other big rock stars are diluting media attention. Also the neoconservative mood of the kid culture seems to be just right for an entertainer whose personality is an outrageous blend of Little Orphan Annie, Margaret Thatcher...
When the Academy of Country Music staged its annual awards hoedown last week, the winning crooners were wearing their best show-biz smiles. But the more common expression on Nashville's Music Row these days is a long face. Only five years ago, country's popularity was growing dramatically, thanks in part to the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. But when the fickle mainstream audience abruptly lost its fascination with the Texas two-step, sales turned sour. While total record-company sales have grown 13% since 1980, to $4.3 billion last year, country-music revenues have dropped 6%, to $430 million...
...Hulk Hogan was playing Hamlet. That would be like asking Jim Brown if he kisses on the first date; you may think you know the answer, yet be reluctant to pose the question. You might not even want to have a little show- biz fun with the 6-ft. 8-in., 300-lb. Hulkster. Billy Crystal got away with it on Saturday Night Live, but Richard Belzer, the pencil-armed host of cable TV's Hot Properties, was not so lucky. Four days before WrestleMania, Hogan was demonstrating a front chin-lock on Belzer, who went limp and fell unconscious...
Ralph: The serious public figures turned out to be Gerry and a bunch of singers and quarterbacks. But at least the show-biz people aren't under the impression that they delivered some sort of public service message...