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Schweitzer is one of the great, over-the-top showmen of American politics, sort of like Bill Clinton on methedrine. He's a tall man with a wide open face and a flat northern-plains accent, who keeps up a steady patter of rowdy stories and observations and is perpetually accompanied by his border collie, Jag, which has become a major celebrity in Montana. The Brian Schweitzer Show is so entertaining--he has been featured on everything from 60 Minutes to The Colbert Report--that it's easy to overlook the substance of the man. Schweitzer has a master...
...best mayors in U.S. history have been great characters--showmen and radicals and bullies and rebels. Then again, so have the worst. Fiorello LaGuardia, who ruled New York from 1934 to '45, besides reforming and rebuilding his city, was famous for smashing slot machines with a sledgehammer and reading the comics to children over the radio during a newspaper strike. On the other hand, Chicago's William (Big Bill) Thompson, first elected in 1915, kept a picture of his good buddy Al Capone on his office wall and once conducted a debate between himself and two white rats, which...
...biggest radio single, “Slow Hands.” While the Orpheum might not be the best place to catch the band—consider that three years ago you might have seen them at Bill’s Bar—the stylish group are consummate showmen, and will be sure to entertain both floor and balcony in the posh environs...
More so than most Vegas showmen, casino mogul Steve Wynn, 62, has helped create the postmodern face of Sin City, replacing plain-vanilla gambling with entertainment destinations like the elegant Bellagio, the luxurious Mirage and the fanciful Treasure Island. So it's a noteworthy change of tone that this pioneer is now doing his best to hide it. His first creation since selling his Mirage empire to MGM Grand for $6.4 billion in 2000, the $2.6 billion bronze-toned Wynn Las Vegas casino and resort is designed to provide a rarefied air of seclusion...
...growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe ... In Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as Houston's great surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across...