Word: circusing
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...preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...
...houselights dim in the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, the ! ringmaster's voice rattles the rafters: "Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Producer Kenneth Feld proudly presents the 119th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Greatest Show on Earth! Take one! We're rolling! Lights! Camera! Action!" But wait -- what kind of show is this? Flickering lights in Ring 2 reveal a scene right out of a silent film. Two Keystone Kop cars have collided, while clowns dressed as cops and criminals strike up a dance...
...Hold it! Cut!" bellows the ringmaster. "That's not what I mean. We need the Greatest Show on Earth! Lights! Camera! Circus!" A bright spotlight shines on a bejeweled woman riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20 women and 20 men dressed in antebellum costumes, more elephants, acrobats, a tableau wagon pulled by horses. The grandest entrance is saved for the platinum-haired animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, who bounds into the arena astride a prancing white horse...
Welcome to the circus, 1990, and the world of Kenneth Feld, who is currently flying as high as one of his daring trapeze artists. The head of Irvin Feld and Kenneth Feld Productions, based in suburban Washington, he is the world's leading producer of live entertainment. Feld not only commands three traveling units of the Greatest Show on Earth, but he is also the creator of five touring Walt Disney's World on Ice spectacles and has just completed work on the new $20 million Siegfried & Roy magic show, which opened Feb. 1 in Las Vegas...
...collect $250 million in revenues this year, double the level of four years ago. Last year his attractions were seen by an estimated 20 million people in Europe, South America and Asia, as well as 20 million in more than 150 cities in the U.S. Says Feld: "Our international circus and ice shows cross all cultural and political boundaries. You don't need to understand a specific language...