Word: star-driven
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...with extramarital adventures, he was also busy with Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, nuclear disarmament, the moon shot, racial upheavals and the American economy. Hersh and his fraternity of investigative reporters have served this nation well. But there is a dark side even in their business, particularly in our age of star-driven, megabuck contracts in books and television...
...deglamorize athletes and their hangers-on. There is a recognizable ordinariness about the way these people stumble in and out of trouble, in and out of grace--an ambiguous note, at once tart and sweet, knowing and innocent, in their relationships. This is completely unexpected in a big, star-driven holiday release. And altogether wondrous...
Recordings, however, are relatively cheap to produce. Stage shows are expensive. "A major reason that revivals have a bad name," says Guys and Dolls producer David, "is that they tend to be star-driven and lacking in production values -- cardboard shows with Robert Goulet." Broadway has already had one such show this season: a cheesily staged and preposterously acted Camelot, starring Goulet in a performance as animated as a computer telephone voice, that came and mercifully went...