Word: showman
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...value of Wyeth's middlebrow eminence? There were no immediate, incontrovertible answers, but the story's hold on the popular imagination proved that Wyeth is still the one artist whose style and personality can tantalize America. Through cunning or coincidence, Wyeth is a singular mixture: old master and master showman...
...week, he told a Texas audience that as he flew over the Dallas Convention Center, where he was renominated in 1984, he thought, "I wonder how folks down there would feel about giving it one more try?" As the audience broke into delirious applause, Reagan quickly added, with his showman's timing, "I'm kidding, of course." But not wholly. Reagan has come to see the 22nd Amendment as limiting presidential leverage, and believes it should be repealed, effective after he leaves office. "It's only democratic," he said, for citizens to vote for a President as many times...
Believe it or not, this review is an endorsement of Macbett. Remember how funny it was when Alfalfa tried to act like a professional showman? This is the same thing, sort of. The cast isn't great, but the script is, and together they manage to work...
...what happened the night he met Marilyn Monroe at a party, took her & upstairs and started making love. A man who thought it was his wife who had gone upstairs banged on the door until it opened, punched the showman, then realized his mistake...
Oral history has long been recognized as a legitimate and fertile form. But what about oral biography? Well, when it concerns Norman Mailer, the enduring enfant terrible, perpetual showman, seigneurial collector of wives and children, and protean writer, it amounts to a genre all by itself. Journalist Peter Manso sets out the lengthy musings of friends and enemies, editors and critics--almost anyone who has anything significant to say and some who do not--including Mailer's overprotective mother ("Running for mayor (of New York) was a mistake, and I told him, 'You don't understand all the spiteful things...