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...shout so much about my 18-in. skirts, I shall renounce paternity." In one sense he already has: all his skirts will be shipped to stores at knee length, leaving the exact specifications up to the purchaser. Gianfranco Ferre, who showed minis, thought the whole fuss was show biz. Said he: "I keep the same proportions on the runway as on the racks...
...with his natural reserve and sometimes phlegmatic manner, Mondale seems ill equipped to drive the inspirational message home Democratic Strategist Robert Strauss says that his man's empathy is not transmitted well on TV. "When you get past the show-biz part of it and talk about family values and American values," Strauss says, "Mondale doesn't have to take a back seat to anyone. But he doesn't handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo...
...composer who with his chief lyricist, the late Howard Dietz, wrote some of the most sophisticated show tunes of the '30s, including Dancing in the Dark, Something to Remember You By, You and the Night and the Music, By Myself, and later, and perhaps most memorably, the show-biz anthem That's Entertainment;'m Kintnersville...
...around shrieking and shooting like underfed versions of SylvesterStallone in First Blood. Says Ron Rotholz, an assistant to Lawrence Gordon, president of 20th Century-Fox: "Survival is the name of the game in Hollywood. The game is a smaller version of the dog-eat-dog world of show biz...
...Broadway's spacious new Minetta Lane Theater, where Balm moved last week after a successful run at the Circle Rep, looks to be enjoying the play a bit too much for its own good. They are sharing not a drink of human dregs but a celebration of show biz in all its volcanic, specious theatricality. Such are the seductions of energy...