Word: buzzes
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...Long before the show got to New York, when it was trying out in Seattle, the word got around about "Hairspray." And the word was the publicists' favorite four-letter one: buzz. Since its August 22nd opening, to enthusiastic reviews, "Hairspray" - based on John Waters' 1988 film about the attempts of one chunky girl to integrate a "Bandstand"-like TV dance party in Baltimore - has fulfilled its box-office promise. Last week it was one of two Broadway musicals playing to capacity audiences (the other was "Mamma...
...History of 'Saturday Night Live'" by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (Little, Brown; October 7). "This oral history of NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' is the juiciest treasure trove of backstage gossip, sex and drugs since 'The Andy Warhol Diaries'...FORECAST: Little, Brown editor Geoff Shandler got the buzz going on this book at BookExpo in May, and a first serial in this month's issue of Vanity Fair has heightened the buzz to a roar. Ubiquitous media coverage and rave reviews should rocket this one onto bestseller lists...
...Associated Press fired one of its Washington reporters last Monday after several of his sources turned out not to exist in the real world. Yet the admission generated little more than a collective yawn. It could barely be heard above the buzz of outrage and glee over the simultaneous demise of another journalist--one who had not fabricated, plagiarized or done any of the things for which reporters have historically got in trouble. Bob Greene, 55, a nationally syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, best-selling author, local institution and married man, had admitted having had a sexual liaison over...
...entry that has garnered the most buzz is NBC's Boomtown (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), which tells each story from the perspective of several characters. But don't believe the early hype that compares it to Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon: that's like saying because 24 takes place in one day, it's TV's Ulysses. Kurosawa questioned the nature of truth, telling a story through unreliable narrators. Boomtown's relatively straightforward narrative mainly means you get to see car crashes from two different angles. (CSI's flashbacks, which change as the investigators get closer to the truth...
...Although lots of Shanghai's historic tree-lined neighborhoods were torn down in the go-go '90s, many graceful mansions remain, especially in the old French Concession. The city's funkiest bars and restaurants crowd this area, some in renovated colonial villas. True, there's been plenty of recent buzz about Xintiandi, a Disneyfied version of Ye Olde Shanghai that houses the city's poshest restaurants and bars in gutted old buildings. But Xintiandi feels like a sleight-of-hand: an insta-version of Shanghai that betrays little of the city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial...