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Even though it was held in the Convention Center at Reno's Harrah's Hotel, it was a small party by show-biz standards. But as bar mitzvahs go, it was everything a 13-year-old boy could ask for-tables laden with Jewish delicacies; $10,000 in savings bonds, as well as expensive doodads from 400 admiring guests. It was all for Mark Sidney Davis, the adopted son of Actress May Britt and black Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., who was converted to Judaism in 1954. Sammy toasted May and his present wife, Altovise, a singer, then presented...
Eagle Eye. The show-biz tricks are buying time for a more fundamental reorganization. Guterman has cut costs by keeping an eagle eye on such things as how many ounces of peas or slices of beef a cafeteria counterman doles out, though he has continued the company's policy of having its executives sample the food regularly to maintain quality...
Died. Abel Green, 72, editor for the past 40 years of Variety, the bible of show biz (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...wacky world of show biz, the week begins on Wednesday when Variety hits the newsstands. Invariably it hits hard, and not just because the 60? tabloid sometimes carries more than 300 pages. Far superior to the average trade paper, Variety crams its columns with all the news and minutiae of the entertainment industry: exposes, grosses, mergers, failures, successes, plans, postscripts, cast additions, reviews, trends...
...sleeve garters he affected to look like Sime. He seemed to know every entertainer, the famous and freakish alike. A walk down the street invariably involved dozens of exchanged greetings and many an impromptu conference. He found time to coauthor, with Comedian Joe Laurie Jr., Show Biz: From Vaude to Video, an encyclopedic history of the business. He traveled constantly and kept up with entertainers all over the world. But he could not accept some of the changes he saw. The new pornography appalled...