Word: showbiz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the script, and there's little that he can do to overcome it. Joseph Bologna, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy, and Adolph Green are all fine character actors, but in this case, we've seen the characters too often before. Most of them are in the well-worn uptight-showbiz mold; the Yiddish momma schtick at Benjy's Brooklyn home is an excruciating parade of old cliches. Only one memorable move emerges from this stew of reheated vaudeville; when Benjy announces: "We Jews know about two things suffering, and where to get great Chinese food...
Since the inaugural run, which was sped on its way by a 25-man band of the Coldstream Guards, the passenger list has included English lords and ladies, showbiz aristocrats and crowned heads of industry. One passenger this summer was Actor Sidney Poitier, with his 30 pieces of luggage. On a trip from Venice to Paris, a group of 14 Arabs celebrated the birthday of a Saudi princess; the Dom Perignon gushed like crude...
Reagan mingled with guests in front of the drawing-room fireplace for small talk and storytelling, at which he excels; he is a walking repertory theater of showbiz anecdotes. During the evening, Vice President-elect George Bush eagerly introduced Reagan to his guests: "Now, Ron, I want you to meet some people in this community who really make it go." Later, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, a longtime fund raiser for the Democratic Party, said of the affair, "This is something the current President never...
...MANY WAYS, STARDUST MEMORIES is just another bad showbiz memoir: Behind the scenes with Woody; On the set with Woody; In bed with Woody; Despair with a Woody; Death with Woody, chapter after chapter of intimate details, full of frustration with the medium, anger at the critics and fans, tempestuous words spilled over mundane problems. He does act--his life changes--but we never see the changes occur. He marks the passing of time by the various women who warm to his gentle nudging...
...regular on The Sonny and Cher Show. When the show was retired, Langston, who had been pocketing about $1,500 a week, decided to call it quits too. He dropped out of performing for about a year and a half to open and manage his own Los Angeles nightclub, Showbiz...