Word: showmen
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...business filled with true showmen, Paul Binder, the ringmaster of The Big Apple, seems modest by comparison. He allows the skill of the performers to woo the audience. When he introduces the Flying Vasquez, he does not mention that Miguel was the first trapeze artist in history to complete a quadruple somersault, formerly thought impossible...
...child. Despite DEG's bankruptcy, the couple dwells in a Beverly Hills mansion complete with household staff and, at last count, two Rolls-Royces. And De Laurentiis is pursuing his new films with youthful ebullience. "The world hasn't seen the end of Dino," says MCA president Sidney Sheinberg. "Showmen sometimes miss the pulse of the public, but they generally don't die and disappear...
After a four-day parade of speakers, scholars and showmen, tens of thousands of men and women of Harvard are leaving Cambridge, dispersing to points around the globe...
...owner fished a fresh chaw of Red Man from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths, or markers with MAIN ENTRANCE etched across them...
Still, moviemakers have to consider moviemaking the big time--profit with honor. And in films, if not in TV, caution breeds entropy. Charges Terry Gilliam, whose Brazil is one of 1985's few demanding films to escape from the studios: "People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want. And so audience expectations become more simplistic. Movies have no surprises, no fizz." Right: new Hollywood is new Coke with the cap left...