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...girls and gimmicks like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have made MGM's former titans jubilant. Herewith a fanciful account of how an old mogul might have reviewed proceedings with one of his great showmen from a perch in Shangri...
What bothers buyers is what lies ahead. As one frazzled observer noted, "What can they possibly do as a sequel next fall? Except parade their models down the Champs Elysees?" Chances are the more theatrical showmen are already in line for parade permits...
What makes Holocaust particularly fascinating is that it is an orthodox product of network television. The creation of veteran TV showmen, it is splintered by commercial breaks and loaded with soap-opera plot devices designed to make the audience tune in each night. Yet Holocaust demonstrates that TV's built-in limitations can become assets: they can make difficult material more accessible to a mass audience. It is hard to imagine Holocaust being so effective in another format. Were the show exhibited in movie theaters, no one would sit still for its 9½-hour running time. Were...
...they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport to reconcile its players' new clout with the need to keep ticket prices down to a daily digestible level, but then it isn't easy to throw or hit a nice pitch either. Showmen like Bill Veeck and operators like Ted Turner seem to be up to the new challenge, and baseball appears to have the momentum to keep rolling along. Asked what he likes most about the game's format, Tug McGraw ponders for a moment and replies, "The shape...
...better than "expected." The possibility, of course, remains that earlier polls of a candidate's strength were all wrong, and that he neither gained nor lost strength but got the vote he was going to get all along. But that's show business-and contemporary politicians, being showmen, are experts at poor mouthing their chances and minimizing their reverses. So you have the spectacle of Birch Bayh insisting on how well he did by finishing third...