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...decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred as a two-faced rap impresario. "It was like Nino Brown meets Shecky Green," Hall explains. "Jeffrey didn't think it was right...
DIED. COLONEL TOM PARKER, 87, Elvis Presley's impresario; of stroke complications; in Las Vegas. The onetime carnival barker discovered Presley in 1955 and then masterminded the King's career while taking oversize percentages for himself. After Presley's death in 1977, his heirs sued Parker, and in 1982 the flashy pitchman relinquished all future income connected with his client. DIED. JULIA BOGGS, 95, party doyenne; in Washington. From the 1940s until 1972, the North Carolina-born Boggs was housekeeping supervisor for the Supreme Court, arranging the Justices' dinners and teas, and later became a behind-the-scenes manager...
...Secrets & Lies A white working-class London woman and her long-lost black daughter, unaware of each other's existence for almost 30 years, are reunited in this unexpectedly sunny drama from Britain's Mike Leigh, the improv impresario known for corrosive studies of family breakdowns. An epic in miniature, S&L is nearly 2 1/2 hours of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, yet it sails along with the expectation that some families can end up with the happiness they have worked so hard to avoid. Expect Brenda Blethyn, a teary tornado as the mother, to be in an aisle...
WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz Impresario...
...episode began when a vaudeville impresario questioned the beauty of college women...