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None of the course's other practitioners have the show-biz pizzazz that Williamson brings to the lecture circuit. She has linked herself with Hollywood's cause-consciousness by founding the Centers for Living, bicoastal organizations dedicated to providing home help for those with life-threatening diseases. Williamson is also the prime fund raiser for Project Angel Food, a program that delivers 200 gourmet meals daily to dying AIDS patients in the Los Angeles area. Among the 800 volunteers who help with Angel Food are recording mogul David Geffen, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, painter David Hockney and 20th Century...
Eisner's rationale for hiring practically every famous architect on earth is complicated: part corporate imagemaking, part personal enthusiasm and part a natural extension of the new Disney self-confident show-biz relentlessness. And there is some enlightened despotism thrown in. "It costs the same to do well as badly," Eisner claims. "It's exactly the same price if you build 1,200 ugly rooms...
...fine on the West Coast. Perhaps some dessert tonight? New Yorkers are roughly 35% more likely than Angelenos to go for goo. They are also more likely to arrive at a restaurant straight from the office, eat, then run to a show or to the suburbs -- or back to the office. Such behavior is considered uncivilized in Show-Biz Land, where tight schedules are spurned. "How can you eat in the same shirt you have worn all day?" sniffs an urbane Los Angeles diner...
...well, you know the old show-biz saying: Bad rehearsal, good show. Or, in this case, pretty good show. Like a lot of us who came of age in the late '40s and early '50s, Neil Simon obviously based his youthful fantasies about the glamorous life on newspaper reports of "playboys" (such a quaint word), who when they weren't racing fast cars spent their idle lives in pursuit of fast women. The script has about it a nice, sweet-dreaming quality, and animation director Jerry Rees, working for the first time on a feature, has invested The Marrying...
...become something of a Las Vegas institution. He has his own retail sports shops, is a frequent TV commentator and counts show-biz entertainers like Frank Sinatra and Dionne Warwick among his friends. His total earnings are estimated at $500,000 a year. Despite his wealth, there is talk every year -- and especially this year -- that Tarkanian is considering a move to the pros. With the NCAA continuing to pursue what Tarkanian calls its "vendetta" against him, the National Basketball Association might be a very attractive option. But close acquaintances say such a move at the moment is unlikely. Even...