Word: showbiz
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...title role, came out, as did a fat, contentious biography by Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller, Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce! My friend Gary Carey wrote an excellent book, the 1975 Lenny, Janis & Jimi, about three charismatic performers who died of drug overdoses. (Even in that sad showbiz trend, Lenny was first.) A few years later, Bob Dylan released the ballad Lenny Bruce: "He was an outlaw, that's for sure / More of an outlaw than you ever were / Lenny Bruce is gone but his spirit's livin...
...Lords in return for their generosity. Labour is not the only party under scrutiny, but the pledges of impeccable probity made when it came to power in 1997 are coming back to haunt it. Levy's arrest, said his lawyer, "was unnecessary, disproportionate and ... entirely theatrical." An instinct for showbiz partly explains his prominence. Success in the music industry moved Levy into exalted circles. He met Blair at a 1994 dinner party. A peerage - as membership of the Lords is called - followed three years later. Not everyone was so lucky. Four men recommended for peerages last year were blocked...
...Louis XVI, and the last, unlucky Queen of France, Marie Antoinette might have been one of those films that some liked, some didn't. But at the end of the movie's first screening a few critics expressed their displeasure with a smattering of boos, which Variety, the preeminent showbiz trade publication, strangely cited as being "Gallic-accented...
...make some money, and be happy with the money, but I’d rather really love exactly what I’m doing.”Catherine L. “Cassie” Fliegel ’06 actually sees screenwriting as the means to a greater showbiz end: success as an actress. Fliegel says she’s hoping to pull off “a girl version of ‘Good Will Hunting.’”“I’d write my own script, and hopefully star...
...can’t work for Starbucks,” Maats says. After being rejected by the gourmet coffee trade, Maats joined up with three other classmates to create Overqualified Tutoring, a tutoring and mentoring program in LA and New York. The tutors’ real interest is in showbiz, but tutoring lets them rake in the big bucks on the side. According to Maats, Overqualified offers a fresh alternative to test prep crash courses that use, as he says, “bullshit phrases” like “Crack the SAT.” All Overqualified employees...