Word: showbiz
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...Italian parents), natural melodic gift and lack of formal musical training. Most of the others - Kern, Rodgers, Hammerstein, Larry Hart - were of German Jewish stock from the educated middle-class; Berlin was a Russian Jewish immigrant, raised on the Lower East Side, quickly out of school and into the showbiz fringe as a singing waiter. Their music came from honing a natural talent with years of study; his songwriting gift was a freak of nature. No wonder he fretted that this knack would desert him; its origin was as much a mystery as its longevity...
...second marriage, to socialite-journalist Ellin Mackay (she wrote for a new magazine called The New Yorker), earned more headlines: the Lower East Side Jew marrying the Upper East Side Catholic, with her father bitterly opposed to the union. It was the first big showbiz-society merger. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a retrospective piece on the early 20s, noted that at that time "society and the native arts had not yet mingled - Ellin Mackay was not yet married to Irving Berlin." The two wed in 1926 and honeymooned abroad. The Social Register refused to mention the couple's return...
...Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can, yes I can!" Huh?) But the book makes the best case for what showbiz historian Ethan Mordden has described as a "casual timelessness" of Berlin's songs...
...addition to the offerings of Time.com highlighted in the column at left, upcoming episodes of CNN's World Beat will explore topics related to this issue, as will CNN's Showbiz on the Road. Also, AOL members can enjoy special features related to our stories. Meanwhile, all of us who worked on this issue are acquiring the CDs of our favorite discoveries, from Nigeria's Femi Kuti to the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. Online, on TV and in our pages, we're sure you'll make some exciting discoveries of your...
...veritable Hollywood script: beautiful actress goes from porn, to B-grade films all the way to the respectable big time. But Shu Qi isn't buying it, at least not yet. For the privilege of making it in showbiz, for the privilege of being blessed with drop-dead looks and boundless energy, she has been paying her dues for too long. Though she made just two soft-core sex movies, porn doesn't want to give her up: sex, or at least the tug of it in a character, defines nearly all of the roles she has played. She wants...