It also added the film's title to the popular lexicon of show-business failure. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)
Does this sound familiar: “Where does some old show-business spoiled brat get off blabbing her opinions about politics and economics and religion and the way the world should work?” ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)
But Preston Lauterbach shows that the Chitlin' Circuit was a fertile show-business proving ground. ❋ Unknown (2011)
My dad wasn't posh by any means but he never would have met a woman from a show-business family if not for the war. ❋ Steve Dougherty (2011)
A script about the Winter Hill Gang is already underway, to be produced by the producer of "The Departed," Deadline.com, a show-business Web site, has reported. ❋ Jennifer Levitz (2011)
Business Pundit created a great infographic displaying some of t interesting numerological trivia behind the biggest award show in show-business: The Academy Awards. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Still, the Venetian Carnival offers its restrained charms, such as the sight of little children, dressed as Spider-Man or Cinderella or whatever this year's fashion is, watching raptl y as a previously unidentified celebrity usually a show-business figure or athlete descends on a wire from the top of St. Mark's Bell Tower into the crowd below. ❋ Francis X. Rocca (2011)
As with all the best show-business illusions, there's a vast slog behind the apparently effortless glitz of the displays – the construction teams turn nocturnal in the late autumn, building their sets by night so that the sound of drills, hammers and clattering stapleguns doesn't disturb the customers. ❋ Unknown (2011)
After Nixon resigned in 1974, Mr. Frye had a final flurry of popularity before receding into show-business obscurity. ❋ Matt Schudel (2011)
There's heartbreak, a touch of glamour, backstage show-business drama—every Bunny has her story and we're going to get to know all of them—also sisterly warmth and plenty of jealousy. ❋ Dorothy Rabinowitz (2011)
After serving in the Army, he worked for his father's office-cleaning business in New York while trying to gain a show-business foothold by performing for free in nightclubs under his stage name, David Frye. ❋ Matt Schudel (2011)
Though not without flaw, Mr. Baitz's latest play, a group portrait of a Reaganesque show-business family whose members are keeping secrets from one another, is for the most part both soundly made and emotionally persuasive, and Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths, Stacy Keach, Judith Light and Thomas Sadoski are as good a cast as anyone could hope for. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)
It's one of the more original ideas in a festival that prides itself on a roster of music-themed films, mostly conventional pieces on show-business legends Ozzy Osbourne, Carol Channing, Miriam Makeba, Elton John and Leon Russell. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
It's a show-business myth that everybody has practiced an Oscar speech in the bathroom mirror. ❋ Virginia Postrel (2011)
Not many people realize that Callas began his show-business career as a big-band drummer in the 1940s, as he shows in this amazing clip from what appears to be the 1980s. ❋ Matt Schudel (2011)
For one thing, she's not eager to read comments dismissing her show-business career as the result of being the grandchild of Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan: "I feel so separate on a daily basis from my family and whatever else comes with K-A-Z-A-N that I feel disrupted by other people putting attention on it." ❋ Ellen Gamerman (2011)
