Word: showman
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...Playmates who entertain the horny troops). Coppola, deep into his own Big Muddy in the Philippines, was calling his film "the Idiodyssey." He soon felt himself devolving from Willard to Kurtz--from the man on a quest to the madman at its end. But he was enough of a showman to release a picture of Academy-consideration length. Now he's enough of an artist to lay out the full story...
...garish orange livery of Stelios Haji-Ioannou is spreading over Europe like a virus--and his competitors haven't found a cure. This natural-born salesman, a 34-year-old combination of the cerebral and the showman, of rich kid and hustler, has a knack for presenting the consumer with a cheap service that's free of the hassle and headache usually associated with discounts. He's applying the idea liberally across a growing number of businesses under the umbrella of easy--as in easyJet, easyRentacar and easyEverything...
...Barbara remarried, to another Air Force pilot, but his stepfather, quiet and reserved, was not the model for Waddle's own personality. Says he: "I'm not like that. I am loud and opinionated--I like to be the center of attention." Even his acts of generosity take on showman quality. One Christmas Waddle used airline vouchers he had accumulated to upgrade 18 complete strangers to first class on a flight from Denver to Seattle...
...payoff pitch And then, almost without warning, Bush - or his speechwriter, anyway - hit his showman's stride. Because as soon as he wrapped up again, and closed with "our surpluses are big enough that there is still money left over" - you could feel it coming. Here comes the tax cut, right...
...That's the worldview of Kitano's crime films, where life is to die for and death is a punch line. Could any view be bleaker?or, in the hands of a master showman, more rudely entertaining? For TV's Beat Takeshi and the movies' Takeshi Kitano are halves of the same protean artist. One does anything for a laugh; the other dares the audience not to laugh at the spectacle of man annihilating himself and his species for the sake of a rusty old word like honor...