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...eerily confident mind, Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is both a motion-picture visionary and a good old-fashioned showman. To his critics -- just about every zit-free moviegoer in the country -- he's a schlockmeister, producer of a string of cheapo '50s horror movies in which mutant monsters, by-products of nuclear carelessness, at once symbolize and exploit everyone's edginess about the recently unleashed atom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Came from Inner Space | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Philadelphia is widely regarded as a town of fickle, uptight sports fans. One minute fans will pack Veterans Stadium to support showman (now bench-warmer) Randall Cunningham, the next they're staying home during playoff time. In what other town would an NBA franchise not sell out its playoff games...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Icemen Still Waiting for Test | 12/18/1992 | See Source »

...TITLE: SHOWMAN: THE LIFE OF DAVID O. SELZNICK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going With The Wind | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

BOOKS Dean Martin: the showman America deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

This is just what Tosches, author of a fine biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, sees as crucial in Martin's life: that he was the signal showman of an America that was "fulfilling its destiny as the chrome-crowned glory of post- literate, polyvinyl civilization." Dino was what we wanted and deserved. With the cool of a crooner and the leer of a rocker, he straddled two pop eras. He took the styles others created and filtered them, through the screen door of his nonchalance, for a Middle America avid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealer With A Hot Hand | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

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