Word: showman
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...He’s a showman,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Lino Pertile. “It was an enjoyable evening...
...first half of the 20th century. The first "great" movie: the Civil War epic "The Birth of a Nation"(1915), whose blacks were cringing or lazy or venal or rapacious, and whose heroes were white men in white sheets. The first "talkie": "The Jazz Singer"(1927), with the white showman Al Jolson singing "Mammy" in blackface. The biggest hit of its era: "Gone With the Wind"(1939), which romanticizes slave-owning Southerners and for whom the only good Negroes were the ones who stayed with their owners after...
...MICHEAUX THE SHOWMAN...
...highly regarded Felix Trinidad to become undisputed champion. After the victory, Hopkins, who had grown up poor and spent time in prison, played on American emotions but still sounded sincere: “I am the American Dream!” he proclaimed. He was being humorous, ever the showman, but there was an element of truth to his words. He had struggled through a great deal, waited a long time for his second chance and finally made good...
...Three days before ASHOK KUMAR died, he had consented to commemorate a postage stamp for the late Raj Kapoor, great showman of Indian movies. It was going to be a glitzy Bombay function and illness was not going to deter the 90-year-old actor from celebrating a colleague's life. But a cardiac arrest did. And thus ended the six-decade career of a film laboratory assistant who became one of Bollywood's most celebrated heroes. My fondest memory of Kumar is from 1958 when he acted in one of my father's films, Mr. X, playing...