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...visualized by artist Gary Baseman (whose illustrations have appeared in TIME) and voiced and sung by Nathan Lane, Spot is a creature of indefatigable show-biz sizzle. In this expansion of the Saturday-morning show, Spot follows his boy Leonard to Florida, where Spot means to submit to the genetic-engineering experiments of Dr. Ivan Krank (Kelsey Grammer). The script, by Cheers vets Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals...
Stories like this rarely make the sunny spots on Entertainment Tonight, but they fill practically every page of Down and Dirty Pictures (Simon & Schuster; 544 pages), an expose of the independent-film business by longtime show-biz journalist Peter Biskind. The book is being released just in time for the Sundance Film Festival, that hotbed of indie-film deals that starts in snowy Park City, Utah, this week. Biskind--whose last book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, chronicled how the sex-drugs-and-rock generation revolutionized 1970s cinema--has done some exploratory surgery on the underbelly of the indie-film scene...
...Jackie Chan are among the actors who started by taking a few falls.) Tsang, whose father, Tsang Kai-wing, had been a professional footballer in Hong Kong, had himself played for Hong Kong's team at the Asian Youth Games in 1970. That athleticism propelled him quickly up the show-biz ranks, winning him parts as an actor and, eventually, the chance to direct. He broke out as the director of 1982's Aces Go Places, a martial-arts spy spoof revolving around a diamond heist. Starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang, the film was at the time...
...charismatic antihero. Like a film noir epic, this is a fable of violent men, mean motives and surly patter, told in flashback, and narrated by a dead man. This artful assembly of photos, film outtakes and TV clips is all the more fascinating for being--within the confines of show-biz mythmaking--true...
...Kanfer, a former TIME editor, presents her, Ball does fit one show-biz type well: the star whose early troubles (father dies young, family suffers financial ruin) fed an insecurity and need to please that paradoxically emboldened her to take risks. But as important as her talent and drive, Kanfer shows, was Arnaz, who handled her business savvily and smoothed over her tendency to bully co-stars and crew (though he also made her miserable with his boozing and philandering...