Word: marcucci
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marcucci, who pomaded and promoted the lads into teen idols, served as technical adviser for The Idolmaker. This Is His Story, as it might have been told to a '50s reporter for Hep Cat - or to Busby Berkeley. The setting is The Bronx, the characters are Italian, the language is coarse, but the story is one long, carefully embroidered cliche that has its roots in Berkeley's old Warner Bros, musicals. Ray Sharkey has the Warner Baxter role: the tough, brilliant old pro. Peter Gallagher is the ghost of Fabian with the soul of Ruby Keeler: the lucky...