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...with his wife of 26 years in Tulsa, Okla., where he has made millions as a consultant who teaches corporations how to avoid getting bilked by guys like the one he used to be. His old self comes out in his lectures, where he is a slick but likable showman. "It's only 90 minutes," says Tom Hanks, who went to one to research the role of the FBI agent who nabbed Abagnale. "But it's the best one-man show you'll possibly ever see." In the movie, Abagnale's character is just as entertaining. "He did steal...
...worry. As with Stoppard's last play, "The Invention of Love," the degree of difficulty here was exaggerated. Stoppard is a superb teacher, but he's mainly a showman, a seducer, an intellectual spieler who doesn't dare lose his engaged audience for a moment. Though the play spans 35 years, six countries and a dozen or so complex political philosophies, the contours are clear. Alexander Herzen (played by Stephen Dillane with that knowing, helpless smile he put to such attentive use in the recent revival of "The Real Thing") loves the play of ideas, loves the possibility for constructive...
LeBlanc, in addition to being a spectacular showman, is a talented musician, as are the other members of the band. While LeBlanc’s drum set is prominent at the front and center of the stage, the microphones on either side of it help demonstrate that it’s not a one-man band. Indeed, the Mouths’ two guitarists, John Thomas Griffith and Paul Sanchez, and bassist Rob Savoy all write songs and take turns singing lead...
...mahogany eyes shining behind steel-framed glasses reveals his lively intelligence, but less of what might motivate the man. Already he displays a politician's wariness about exactly what to reveal to his public. If he's not yet a pol, he's already a consummate showman. The talent was developed early. Born the first of four children, he took a variety of jobs?from selling newspapers to driving a minibus?to support himself before and after his years as an electrical-engineering student and a fledgling entrepreneur. But according to Ahmad Soliekhin, one of Aa Gym's closest aides...
It’s a good thing that the next hardest working showman is Wayne Coyne, whose boundless energy is just as suited to his amazing studio work as to the flashlights he wields onstage behind Beck. But even though both performers are at the top of their respective games as musical scientists, their experiment at the Orpheum proved little about their strength as lab partners. While the music was great, the chemistry seemed lacking. It’s not hard to imagine that Beck, the moody perfectionist who is used to conducting his own cut-and-paste band...