Word: pizazz
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...that AIN'T BROADWAY GRAND, which opened last week on the Great White Way, is a deliberate throwback to the aesthetic described in one of its lyrics as "tall dames and low comedy." Full of loud and tuneful music, skimpy costumes, tireless dancers, ageless baggy-pants comics, chutzpah and pizazz, the show celebrates the life and craft of producer Mike Todd, a dime-store Ziegfeld best remembered these days as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's eight husbands. That biographical fact is a little inconvenient for the narrative, which builds to a reconciliation with a prior wife, film star Joan...
...Dutch thriller. The original movies had their admirers, but neither property could be sold as is to the U.S. mass audience. Some expert renovation was in order. Cunning Hollywood script doctors had to approach the European originals not as finished portraits but as sketches in need of coherence, heart, pizazz. It's what rewriters do: refashion a boutique item so it will jump off the shelves at the mall...
When businesses choose celebrities to endorse their products, they generally opt for world-class sports figures or gorgeous starlets. But a travel-industry ad campaign now airing on Japanese television may prove that graying world leaders of debatable sex appeal can sell with all the pizazz of a Vanna White. Developed by Go*USA, a tourism-industry trade group, the commercial features none other than President George Bush promoting the U.S. as a vacation paradise. Over images of rolling lawns and sandy beaches, Bush touts Hawaii, homegrown Dixieland jazz and, in an endearingly shameless display of personal preference, the wonders...
...Miata, with its convertible top and intense colors, is the only product of the Los Angeles studios that exudes a distinct regional pizazz -- the first truly postmodern automobile, both a reinterpretation of and an improvement upon nostalgically recalled classic sports cars. Yet despite all the drafting tables suddenly clustered together, the Miata does not signal the emergence of a canonical L.A. style...
...Kerrey shouldn't be judged by his dining establishments. The salad might have lacked pizazz, but Kerrey does not. He has charisma. He has glamour. He's good looking. When "Terms of Endearment" was filmed in Lincoln, Debra Winger, uh, moved into the, uh, Governor's Mansion. Guess who was governor...