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...limits to interviews and required journalists visiting the set to sign legal agreements not to reveal certain news. (TIME turned down a visit under those conditions.) Control of the cast: the Survivors can be fined $5 million if they spill the beans, and CBS has ironfisted control over their show-biz futures of a kind known to few besides boy-band recruits and '30s movie stars. Control of the spoils: the series is a brilliantly conceived marketing device used to promote the CBS schedule, from Bryant's Early Show to Dave's Late Show, and it has advertising built right...
...Eugene Pallette, and Jolie in show-biz heaven--Al Jolson...
...late-night broadcast on NBC called the Tonight show in 1953, he was a revolutionary. The infant medium was still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed in front of the camera, gabbed with his announcer and bandleader, ad-libbed easily with guests and brought to TV a new sense of intimacy and informality. Amid the high-pitched show-biz artifice of most TV around him, Allen seemed to dial back...
...glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling a show-biz magazine, "We do not plan a coalition of Cross-Dressing Glam Rockers for Bush anytime soon...
...have a new score by David Yazbek, whose lyrics ("cojones" rhymed with "what testosterone is") are marginally better than his generic, '70s-pop-with-a-hint-of-Sondheim music. Even the supposed showstoppers--a black man (Andre DeShields) sings of his endowments; a crusty pianist (Kathleen Freeman) celebrates her show-biz past--seem earthbound and underchoreographed...