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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...
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...
...TITLE: SHOWMAN: THE LIFE OF DAVID O. SELZNICK...
BOOKS Dean Martin: the showman America deserved...
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...