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John D. Downey is the sole proprietor and a "one-man show" who self almost every type of flower...
Then it was on to Bulgaria, at the invitation of his "European economic adviser," Svetoslav Stoilov, a friend whose qualifications include working as a magician's assistant at home in Bulgaria, as a circus technician in Czechoslovakia and as a dance-bar proprietor in Vienna. Following a night's rest in Stoilov's hometown of Sandanska, the Russian politician traveled to the village of Melnik to accept a painting from a local artist who shares Zhirinovsky's conviction that Bulgaria should expand its territory by annexing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. To make sure the message got across...
...number starts behind the audience, as the show girls (most of these really are women, not men--casting must have been a problem) descend from the elevated entrance balcony on two curved staircases. We are introduced to a small family of transvestite night club performers in St. Tropez: the proprietor and ringmaster Georges (Art Shettle), his diva husband, Albin or "Zsa-Zsa" (Michael Conte) and their motley crew of dancers and friends...
...feel that the news need burden us with the vagaries of war or crime so long as a star or Kennedy is around to be interviewed.) This in part betrays the intellectualist biases of the anti-television crusaders. CNN is undoubtedly the most violent network on television, yet its proprietor Ted Turner can, without any irony at all, testify before a Senate Panel about the ills of TV violence...
...twice, in fact, first as a jogging candidate, and then in full presidential mode. "If you want to run into me or ICM's Jim Wiatt or Jeff Katzenberg or Arnold Schwarzenegger," says producer Steve Tisch (Risky Business, Bad Influence), who sometimes brings his uncle, not exactly funky CBS proprietor Laurence Tisch, "it's a good guess one or all of us will be there any Saturday or Sunday morning...