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...business. The list of acknowledgments at the end of Playland names Otto Preminger, Natalie Wood, Billy Wilder and a cast of thousands. This explains part of the problem. What is supposed to be a novel is really the author's Hollywood valedictory, and he has included every good show-biz anecdote he ever heard. Unfortunately, the glut of marvelous gossip has stopped his story cold...
...would make a great script for a movie or TV mini-series: company founder's teenage grandson rebels against going into family liquor business and vows instead to carve out his own career as a show-biz tycoon. But the movies and plays he produces, partly with his share of the family wealth, all bomb; he returns, chastened, to the place being held for him in the family firm. There he unexpectedly shows a fair executive talent and succeeds in keeping an already giant company growing, largely by diversifying beyond whiskeymaking. But he remains screenstruck, and as he approaches...
...when the Diz Biz people first thought about retail stores, the notion was anything but a sure thing. To make it work required a happy confluence of factors: a resurgence of appealing films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast from Disney's cartoon unit, the company's revived marketing savvy under Eisner and the rise of the mall culture. "It's become instinctual for us," says Eisner, "that we do something either really, really big or really, really small. With these stores, we wanted to bring the Disney feeling into a mall environment...
...people who are not present, including Madonna, upon whom he regularly performs monologue muggings, so he should have been better prepared. The only thing he wasn't ready for was the way she did it -- in his face. But don't worry, Dave, it's not Karma, just show biz...
...These days the Paris shows are the most fun. All kinds of show biz, social comment -- like cellular phones being used by models as they saunter down the runway. As of this year, the Paris shows take place in a new part of the Louvre called the Carrousel. A few renegade designers march people off to an outlying arrondissement to see the clothes in an abandoned warehouse or train station. Once inside, you often have to wait an hour or more for the show to start. In New York, 20 to 30 minutes is the rule. But no fashion show...