Word: showbiz
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This was to be the day that high art met low trash on the Cote d'Azur, with two quirky North American directors offering analyses of death-love in the cult of showbiz. Today's prestige items: Gus Van Sant's Last Days, an imagining of the death of Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, and Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan's film of a murder case involving a comedy duo not unlike Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Because Van Sant, from the U.S., and Egoyan, the Canadian, are revered for their elaborate, eccentric visions, we figured we would...
...Well, forget it. The films were both busts. And, whatever the lofty intentions, they were exploitation films - I mean, they exploited an audience's lurid curiosity about the harm showbiz icons could inflict on themselves and others - and failed ones to boot...
...very few leading men with the gift of delight: I?d want Kevin Kline on Broadway each year, and Martin Short in any musical comedy. (Short could play both main roles in The Producers, perhaps simultaneously.) But no one exudes the musk and majesty, the showbiz sulphur, of BSM. The New York Times called him Broadway?s ?last leading man?; but that doesn?t touch his regal stage presence. He?s more like the one true king...
...swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other comics might beg for love; Carson accepted the laughs, but, I'll bet, didn't need them to warm his needy heart. What need? Some would say, what heart? Remember that sang froid means cold blood...
...plays.? The Missing in Action Website, which highlights female pioneers in TV production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward?s ?Blithe Spirit.?? So the co-starring of a stage veteran and a pretty novice gave a showbiz fizz to the Kirkland-Adams alliance. In his nationally syndicated column, Winchell gave space to the couple when they got married. And the same five years later, when they went phffft...