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...course, practically everybody is a kind of rock star these days, from genuinely heroic pilots in Bosnia to spaced-out houseguests of celebrities charged with murder. And guess who's angriest about the Hard Copy turn the world has taken? That's right-Jackson, the man who brought show-biz hype into the mtv age; the megastar who, along with his wife Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, will grant an audience to Diane Sawyer on this week's PrimeTime Live; the guy whose shameless promotional short for his new CD features him leading goose-stepping Soviet-bloc-style soldiers...
...producing, Moore, MELANIE GRIFFITH, RITA WILSON and ROSIE O'DONNELL play second fiddle to the girls who portray them as 12-year-olds. And although GABY HOFFMANN (Sleepless in Seattle), THORA BIRCH (Clear and Present Danger), ASHLEIGH ASTON MOORE and CHRISTINA RICCI (Casper) are young, they know the biz. "I didn't try to act 12," says Ricci, 15. "When people try to act younger, they come off looking stupid." The film is due this fall...
...more proof that sooner or later, in America everything is show biz-fodder for the great infotainment maw of gossip, nostalgia and exploitation. An ad for the movie's sound track announces: "The Panthers had a calling. Now, so do you. Call 1-800-8-panther to win $1,000 instantly in the Panther 'Power to the People' Sweepstakes." As for Horowitz, his potent grievances have been so well publicized that Mario Van Peebles grouses, "He must have a bigger promotion budget than our film does...
...some messy '50s headlines ain't down yet. And she ain't just cute. There's a platinum will under her blond perm (as her daughter Carrie Fisher suggested in the fond, acerbic novel and film Postcards from the Edge). And there's a vision in Debbie's show-biz heart--a vision that looks back to the movies' glory days, from the '20s through the '60s. Who else has built and stocked her own Hollywood museum...
...years later at a loss of about $10 million. By that time, his son was reading scripts for producer David Puttnam. Edgar Jr. found a script he loved, and in 1972, at Puttnam's goading, produced the movie, a flop called The Blockhouse. He was 17. With a show-biz dilettante's drive, he invested in Broadway plays, wrote pop songs, married a singer-actress and produced a few other films-notably a Jack Nicholson melodrama, The Border, released in 1982 by MCA-Universal...