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...show-biz ego-stark, aggressive, manipulative, wheedling, insatiable-has found no more assiduous celebrators than the songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. In Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of the Year and the movie New York, New York, they have composed dozens of brassy ballads for gutsy ladies staking out their parcel of asphalt turf. No raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens for these guys. Kander's tunes have the catchy dissonance of a Broadway traffic snarl just before show time; violins cower mutely in the pit while the percussion sets a tempo of edgy energy...
...will make a full-length work for a European company, inspired by the early ballets of Mozart's time. Before that will come a June collaboration with Jerome Robbins for New York City Ballet. All of Broadway has its eye on this matchup of two tough-minded show-biz smoothies. So far Robbins has made only one suggestion: that the drop curtain be in the form of "His" and "Hers" bath towels. The sense of loss in Tharp's Fait Accompli has in part to do with the eventual prospect of retiring, and it will not be easy...
...rhinestone-and sequin-soaked suits have left audiences gasping while he excuses himself to "change into something a little more spectacular." But no one has managed to turn excess into success like Liberace, 64, who still reigns as the glitter king of the big-bucks show-biz circuit. To be sure, he still faces the unresolved "palimony" suit filed against him by his former chauffeur-bodyguard Scott Thorson, 24. But nothing is dampening the celebration of his 40th year in show business. For the first time he is taking his Las Vegas show-sets and kaboodle-on the road...
...Agency (then called the International Communication Agency) was a neglected foreign policy backwater before Charles Z. Wick, 66, became its director in 1981, but the former Hollywood moviemaker, venture capitalist and, most important, close friend of Ronald Reagan's has brought to the agency righteous zeal and a show-biz tone. He has also earned an uncomplimentary reputation for a bumptious manner and an attention-getting lifestyle...
...desire." He corralled an ad agency that promptly recycled a famous cereal slogan of the early 1960s ("I want my Maypo!") and transformed the message into a new catch phrase, "I want my MTV!" Most important, Pittman conducted the sort of sociological surveying that turns statistical science into show-biz witch doctory, with footnotes. "MTV was the most researched channel in television history," boasts Robert Roganti, MTV's vice president in charge of ad sales...