Word: showbiz
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...seller, "Heartbreak Hotel," and became the biggest music idol since Sinatra, and loads weirder. Then, too soon, he was devoured by Hollywood's make-over machinery, steered into a rut that would lead to nearly three dozen low-mediocre films. Parker's determination to slip Elvis into the old showbiz mainstream effectively neutered the emperor of sexual and musical threat...
...piano to bang on; and crooners like Bing Crosby and Perry Como ("Perry Coma" in Harvey Kurtzman's Humbug parody of America's most popular TV star of the mid-50s) just stood around and smiled. Elvis, in the instrumental interludes between his singing, simply did what countless showbiz troupers had done on music-hall, vaudeville and Broadway stages: danced. His gyrations weren't exactly the old soft-shoe. But it was a dance: St. Vitus...
...Hong Kong showbiz scene has an appetite for sensation. The tiny Special Administration Region is crawling with movie stars and pop idols who are paid to be in public - presiding at boutique openings, promoting their CDs, shilling for breast-enhancement creams - and who, when they?re on their own, can step in the usual amount of trouble. It?s also got more gossipmongers and paparazzi per square inch than any place in the world, and dozens of newspapers, like Apple Daily and the Oriental Daily News, that are feverishly devoted to exposing the dark sides of bright people. The salacious...
...show's book has a few showbiz references, both of its period (Penny, quoting Louise from "Gypsy," plaintively states, ""I'm a pretty girl, Mama!") and out of it (Amber gets anointed Miss Hairspray and, when Tracy and her supporters demand the crown on her head, proclaims in her most menacing Charlton Heston fashion, "You'll have to rip it from my cold dead hands"). But most of the writing has a fidelity to character comedy that kept me smiling as I was typing these now-familiar snatches of dialogue. It also tucks a moral inside: not the 60s dream...
...much to the relief of Asereje-fatigued DJs and critics, the sisters have no other plans. "I refuse to even think of the future," says Pilar. "We live in the present." And in the past. Lola has a "been there, done that" attitude when it comes to the whole showbiz success thing. "We've had many experiences," she says. "I believe I was a singer or a dancer in another life." Which makes you wonder: are she and her sisters already thinking about their karma in the next...