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...Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Vaunting oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude that some hot client continues to employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street Journal. A lot of people...
Many executives are convinced that early-morning meetings save time and money. By substituting a brief break fast for a lengthy lunch, they can get more work done. Out-of-town trips can be shortened by beginning the working day at 7 a.m. Says John Schulman, a Los Angeles attorney: "A breakfast meeting indicates a degree of seriousness in what you're doing because to start working at 7:30 or 8 a.m. shows you're really interested...
...economically depressed areas in the nation. It is a one-industry town, and that industry is the ailing auto business. Unemployment has escalated to a Great Depression level of 23.9%, almost triple the national average. Into this municipal battleground for survival, old XVI, with its estimated 70,000 out-of-town visitors, its press personnel and its attendant show-business acts, arrives like a relief column of well-off cavalry. Some experts claim that the event may pump as much as $62 million into the economy of southeastern Michigan...
...mood was easy, the conversation relaxed, as Ronald Reagan lunched at the White House with a small group of out-of-town newspaper editors. Was it possible, wondered one of the visitors, to have a limited exchange of nuclear weapons without setting off a nuclear...
...season, they can look back on the 1980-81 year and pat their pocketbooks with pride. Attendance was 11 million, up 15% from the record-breaking year before, and box-office receipts tallied $196.9 million, almost quadruple those of the 1969-70 doldrums. A new generation of out-of-town and foreign visitors who love New York also love the New York theater; one-fourth of Broadway ticket buyers are from outside the metropolitan area. A new generation of entertainment consumers, attracted by television commercials, half-price tickets made available on the day of the performance, and the ease...