They are very nice people, but showbiz spin is showbiz spin.
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Showbiz snaps up its competitor and Brock rebrands the operation as Showbiz Pizza Time Inc.
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Showbiz loves to make movies about showbiz, and television loves to make television about TV. YouTube has simply democratized this impulse.
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Can it maintain its tricky balance, as a lovingly acidic showbiz satire that's also a moving meditation on, and deconstruction of, the showbiz satire genre?
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Its prophetic evocation of a world in which news is showbiz and showbiz is news seems like a perfect fit for our screen-filled, headline-screaming times.
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The same is true of Letterman's longtime musical sidekick, Paul Shaffer, whose parody version of Vegas smarm defined "Late Night" as pure showbiz and pure anti-showbiz simultaneously.
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" He adds: "My Dad would always say, 'It's all showbiz.
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Welcome to the showbiz version of chicken or the egg!!!
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Levine and Prinsloo weren't alone in celebrating this showbiz milestone.
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Carrie Fisher was what it meant to be in showbiz.
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But showbiz and its attendant excitement only intensified their romance.
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Sometimes in showbiz, there's accidental exposure ... and then there's Bella Thorne.
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"She has natural showbiz ability with unlimited potential," Trump tells PEOPLE.
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Translation: take down Trump's Republicans now ... make your showbiz bucks later.
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In showbiz, they say to never work with children or animals.
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The seven names above the title alone span generations of showbiz.
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Despite the hectic nature of showbiz, Applegate said, Henderson was different.
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"We're not getting any kind of showbiz artifice ever," he said.
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The agony of the refugee and the posturing of showbiz politicians.
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Showbiz cannibals and a greedy celebrity press were chewing her up.
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But shrewd planning and a little showbiz bluffing did the trick.
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Because we all know that old showbiz advice: Show, don't tell.
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He's Mister Rogers, if he cared more about showbiz than kindness.
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Showbiz stories, built on dreams and funny-money, are flimsier still.
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Along the way he befriended fellow showbiz personalities large and small.
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But there is an undeniable showbiz quality to their arrival in Rome.
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As the old showbiz saying goes, never work with children or Wookiees.
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So maybe don't drop your deep showbiz insights on your next date.
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Showbiz Tonight's AJ Hammer asked the singer to clear up the confusion.
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" She would get this little twinkle in her eye — like, "oh, showbiz.
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The Science and Showbiz of Hypnosis is available through the British Library.
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The campaign on behalf of Unplanned followed some classic showbiz PR playbooks.
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Showbiz was never Trump's natural home, but he wished it could be.
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I don't want them to experience the showbiz-y part of it.
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Daisy Lea knows you gotta be flexible to make it in showbiz.
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Donald Trump promised Republicans an entertaining showbiz spectacle at their national convention.
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In short, he couldn't have been much more showbiz if he tried.
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What you'll discover here are the more obscure couplings in showbiz history.
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But that went nowhere, and Ailes soon found himself back in showbiz.
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"My mother loved showbiz," Miss Sawyer told The Jewish Journal in 2012.
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In showbiz, what's on the screen is the only thing that matters.
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And not talking about this entire world, but just the showbiz world.
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"It wasn't just showbiz with Richard," Mr. Gibney said at Porter House.
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With a wonderful sense of humor about fame and the pitfalls of Showbiz.
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Russell says that phenomenon even has a corny showbiz name of its own.
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I always loved Showbiz Moms and Dads, which was a really great show.
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" — Showbiz 411's Roger Friedman "There was no premiere, no screenings, no buildup.
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But "Tappin' Thru Life" is itself a kind of school in showbiz etiquette.
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After nearly 10 years in showbiz, Bieber has had some ups and downs.
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Harrington was born Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. in 1929 into a showbiz family.
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Houston Texans star J.J. Watt wants to break into showbiz after he retires.
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Anybody know if the Showbiz Pizza band is free to play my reception?
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There's showbiz on the other, red in tooth and claw, schadenfreude and sex.
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Trump earlier this year said he would bring a "showbiz" quality to Cleveland.
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The long-awaited Showbiz meet with Larkin in Hackensack began on April 213.
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"It's not a showbiz thing to do to eschew embalming," Ms. Lovejoy said.
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Mary Pickford was one of the highest paid showbiz executives in the 1920s.
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"It's really, really fun," adds Tatum of the showbiz satire set in the 1950s.
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Tom Parker-like showbiz slickster, believed in success by way of publicity-generating spectacle.
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"I look at us as one of those old-fashioned showbiz couples," says Offerman.
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Cruz says he's shocked anytime people in showbiz are open about their conservative views.
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Still, it doesn't look anything is stopping Cosby from trying to return to showbiz.
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"What you're seeing is the destruction of a legacy," Rashad previously told Showbiz 411.
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But the series never takes an attitude of easy superiority to its showbiz characters.
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The result was part showbiz stunt, part postmodern happening, part fanboy dream come true.
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"We always joke that, in the end, it's all showbiz, kid," Mr. Conlon said.
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But you still need an element that lends the proceedings a whiff of showbiz.
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In total, Carmine has more than 100 acting credits over six decades in showbiz.
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You grew up in Los Angeles, but you don't come from a showbiz family.
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I so got everything he was doing — this whole kind of showbiz lady 1959.
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Your birth name was Kalpen Modi, which you shortened to Kal Penn for showbiz.
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"Gilbert Gottfried's 'Amazing Colossal Podcast' gives great insight into all things showbiz," he said.
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And the fact that it came so unexpectedly feels kinda like a showbiz miracle.
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He was not just a huge talent and a dear friend, but a showbiz icon.
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He's been in music videos before Spears' "Slumber Party" wasn't his first foray into showbiz.
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Kid Rock would not be the first showbiz figure to make a leap into politics.
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It aims to help people's showbiz dreams come true without people having to leave Milwaukee.
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Brucie's showbiz career lasted so long, 75 years, that it got into Guinness World Records.
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"I don't know why Love Actually is still so popular," Grant said to Bang Showbiz.
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But his parents insisted he learn a trade just in case showbiz didn't pan out.
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With "Teddy Perkins," Glover and director Hiro Murai unspool a tale of pure showbiz doom.
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"This has got to be the coolest joint custody agreement in showbiz history," Mayer joked.
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Sounds like the ideal place to comedown after a whole night on the showbiz sherbet.
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Both men have each lost work in showbiz, but she believes more repercussions are coming.
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But showbiz aside, both leaders are grappling with the constraining consequences of their own mistakes.
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RuPaul has been in the game (of showbiz, that is) for a good while now.
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Two of the last four Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan and Trump, had substantial showbiz careers.
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If Elvis (minus Dylan) is the definition of rock, then rock is remembered as showbiz.
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Word of the "Queen of Soul" being gravely ill was first reported by Showbiz 411.
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Consequently, such a distinction is only achievable by the most multi-talented members of showbiz.
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He sets up the latter as if it's going to be a typical showbiz lament.
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If you dream of one day becoming a showbiz journalist, think: is this for you?
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" After calling the 2012 GOP convention "the single most boring convention I've ever seen," Trump promised to bring a "showbiz" factor to his own convention, saying in April, "It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep.
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Essential to his message and presentation, his whole image, was the conflation of showbiz and sales.
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"Donald is a showbiz guy, and his talk is his shtick," says one friend, Christopher Ruddy.
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In true showbiz fashion, it's a very similar plot line to what happened with Sony Pictures.
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Roger Friedman, a reporter with Showbiz 411, was the first to speak on Franklin's ailing health.
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Together, the two have traversed showbiz, the sports industry, and raising a family in the spotlight.
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That's in the astronomical sense of the word, though presumably the showbiz definition applies as well.
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David had showbiz in his blood, and his true desire was to become a serious actor.
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You could call this showbiz ambition, with the usual hair dye and lots of plastic surgery.
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"Musicals in general may be sentimental, mythologized, full of false optimism and showbiz glitz," Viertel writes.
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Showbiz was really the only way out without an education or money to get an education.
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But despite all that, this showbiz legend wanted to speak about his lifelong association with aliens.
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Turns out ... Offset and Cardi are a true showbiz couple 'cause that was all for show.
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A derailed stint in showbiz, courtesy of Mr. Stallone, and some trouble with the law follow.
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Duterte has described Sunday's kiss as "pure showbiz" intended to entertain a crowd of Filipino expatriates.
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Not by falling footfalls or depleting budgets or any of those typical concerns that plague showbiz.
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We all know nepotism is rampant in showbiz, but Bryce kinda shocked us with her answer.
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" Walker continued working in showbiz until the late '90s, when he voiced a character in "Small Soldiers.
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Yep: back in his pre-showbiz days, Carell delivered the mail for a spell in Littleton, Massachusetts.
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The Apprentice boosted Trump's showbiz instincts, honing his ability to capture an audience and command a stage.
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And in the strangest way, it's an oasis of humanity in the desert, and in showbiz, too.
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During an interview on The Wendy Williams Show, the host asked where she got her showbiz moniker.
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Rudy Giuliani can't seem to remember the most important lesson in showbiz: the camera is always watching.
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Draya quickly gave Chyna props ... so you'd think she's all about rushing showbiz tots into the spotlight.
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A showbiz talent show broadcast at the same time was watched by over three times as many.
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I don't think it's the showbiz part that she brings that's useful to them as a corporation.
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I was young and straight off the football field and had very little showbiz or radio background.
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I thought the overall satire of Los Angeles was a really sharp one about showbiz and culture.
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Morse, of course, is a well-established showbiz vet with 60 years of acting under his belt.
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The beginning and end are deliberately trite, with showbiz music; but the middle is separate, extended, odd.
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The annual awards celebrate media and showbiz figures who have encouraged positive representations of the LGBT community.
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That notebook started filling up with showbiz inventions, too, including a movie star I named Edrall Casceese.
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From a near-frontier in the 1910s, it became a counter-counterculture showbiz enclave in the '60s.
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Self-confidence is a good thing, and vanity is basically a visa you need to enter showbiz.
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It's not as exciting or crazy as their on-camera personalities, but then I guess that's showbiz.
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"Sometimes I think, 'It's such a pain in my ass,'" she says of her enduring career in showbiz.
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There's an old saying in showbiz: Never work with animals, or animals dressed up as larger, fictional animals.
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Leo's not in showbiz, but he couldn't resist asking for a selfie as a memento, and Ashton obliged.
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For starters, Modica says there are a few beauty rules of showbiz she had to learn early on.
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Pink is one of the hardest working women in showbiz — and Justin Timberlake wants everyone to know that.
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For more of Conway's final interview, check out his stories and showbiz memories in Wait for Your Laugh.
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But it was an even older showbiz institution who stole the show: soon-to-be-centenarian Kirk Douglas.
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"Yeah, well, Doncaster is the opposite of showbiz," Louis says, cackling when I point this out to him.
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As for what Skylar's doing with his showbiz money, he says he's saving up and thinking about college.
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She is one of the bravest women in showbiz and, it seems, also one of the most stylish.
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The repeated pattern showed the suits in showbiz that the success of the genre wasn't a one-off.
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After being raised in Kenya, she moved to the U.S. for college ... before starting a career in showbiz.
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" Since then, Baby Jane has become a pop-culture inside joke, its title shorthand for "deranged showbiz crone.
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In fact, it often forms fast in showbiz, and you never know where it'll come from, he told Mashable.
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"Forget these women," Rashad told outlet Showbiz 411 in 2015 of the many women who claimed Cosby assaulted them.
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In showbiz, where image is everything, actors have to be protective of their likenesses and the brand they represent.
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For the Beatles in 1963, Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium was the absolute pinnacle of showbiz.
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Happy: Shaquille O'Neal The NBA legend might have the most infectious smile in both showbiz and the sports world.
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In August 2017, Showbiz 411 reported that the two were shopping for apartments together on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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Garry Shandling's sly, subversive wit and meta take on the vagaries of showbiz truly made him a comic's comic.
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Then The Sun created this thing called a 'gay-ometer' - Which way is Dave swinging in their showbiz page.
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He was apparently hoping that his showbiz contacts would lead not just to an article but to a film.
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We say this sketch alone – a perfect fusion of music and comedy – makes good on her family's showbiz legacy.
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The canonical choice, he notes, is between Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan — rock-as-showbiz versus rock-as-poetry.
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Montel Williams can't believe some people have the nerve to shame actors who work non-showbiz gigs between roles.
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I am often reminded that I'm still a female working in showbiz, and there's no perfectly happy ending here.
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However, knock-backs are never easy and, in an industry as competitive as showbiz, you're bound to face many.
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But in the political showbiz sphere, Trump's cartoonish masculinity squares off against cartoonish "Why Can't We Hate Men?" incitements.
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Together, they created a smash-mouth version of conservatism that married plutocracy with populism, reactionary politics with showbiz values.
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She's not cynical at all about showbiz, so I relate to that part of her and her family values.
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The star of TV's "Bizarre Foods" and dozens of other projects may be the fastest-moving man in showbiz.
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As dark as it is funny, "Get Shorty" continues to depict both the allure and the insanity of showbiz.
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There's an entire showbiz industry built around performative contrition, and BoJack has mastered its turns and straightaways like Secretariat.
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Some of the biggest studios in showbiz threw their own respective shindigs, including Hulu, Amazon, HBO, Netflix, Warner Bros.
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We asked her what brought them together, besides the fact they had showbiz in common, famous families and everything.
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Trump looked glad of a showbiz diversion -- a chance to put himself back on a red carpet in prime time.
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The Grammy Awards are often derided as mere showbiz, and that was hard to argue with Sunday night as well.
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They perform first in the circus and then (a satirical point shrewdly made) amid the modern showbiz of environmental activism.
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So that's one of the reasons I want to get the message out, it really is not a showbiz story.
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Steven J. Boettcher, who co-directed the film, revealed that after nearly 80 years in showbiz, White still loves working.
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Desiigner became a professor in r-rolling Tuesday, but it makes us wonder ... is this authentic or just plain showbiz?
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What if he dates someone else famous and I can't go on Daily Mail showbiz anymore without seeing them together?
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He's a major film junkieWith his extensive background in showbiz, it makes sense that Rothman would be a total cinephile.
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He decided that del Castillo would be the only showbiz pro in charge of bringing his story to the screen.
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One famous showbiz story involved the time Parkyakarkus performed at a roast for TV greats Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
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And when Pizza Time went bankrupt, Showbiz, with its mascot bear Billy Bob Brockali, was ready to save the day.
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The story — a showbiz sendup with Rod Serling-esque horror elements — gets increasingly over the top as it goes on.
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It's a glimpse of what "Fosse/Verdon" might have been, if it were less attached to its showbiz-downfall template.
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Even as her showbiz patient list grew, she remained uninterested in attending musicals and declined patients' invitations to their shows.
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Because the 56-year-old Carell, a showbiz veteran, is perceived as Chalamet's senior when it comes to Oscar categorization.
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"Broadway Baby" begins with a tepid song-and-dance number and a scene of her as a showbiz-besotted kid.
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Which, this being a musical comedy, happily parallels a performer unbending into the liberation of good old, show-off showbiz.
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She'll now be the apotheosis of the union of showbiz and royalty, with a glorious subsidiary cast of embarrassing relations.
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The Osundairo bro isn't just succeeding in boxing either ... he's on the up and up in the showbiz world too.
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Cats was a showbiz circus of unprecedented proportions, long before it actually opened at the Winter Garden in October 753.
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Last year, nearly 200 seniors signed up for a seminar, "Showbiz After 60," on how to break into the business.
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What are some of the aspects of "White Famous" that are specific to a black performer climbing the showbiz ladder?
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People features portraits of well-known figures in showbiz and the news — movie and sports stars, political leaders, European royals.
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The teen recently told PEOPLE that there was always an inkling she'd end up in showbiz just like mom and dad.
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We signed off with invented names: some of his were mr showbiz, milton keynes, rhoda borrocks and the duke of ear.
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Ahead, the truth about transitioning from showbiz to businesswoman, and how to really make your 2017 vows stick, from Hudson herself.
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The pre-song banter between the band and the hardest working man in showbiz is just as entertaining as the music.
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It was that realization — which she came to early on in her showbiz career — that motivated Marling to get into screenwriting.
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No artist is obliged to remove their R. Kelly collabs, but the way showbiz normally works is ... celebs follow the trend.
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She takes Ben to her and Susie's favorite diner, where it is very obvious she knows every showbiz person in there.
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Maybe the pack represents Taylor's haters, others in the showbiz industry who aim to take her down by tarnishing her image?
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Fechter is given 3203 percent and a position as a minority shareholder with Showbiz Pizza and continues to grow Creative Engineering.
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Pop legend Barry Manilow opens up for the first time about coming out, finding love, and surviving showbiz for 50 years.
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This would have been exciting (and likely impossible), but showbiz, celebratory bombast isn't what his albums Blonde or Endless are about.
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But it looks like she may have fared just as well in showbiz 100 years ago, when silent movies were king.
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The singer-actor is now closer than ever to unlocking one of the greatest honors in all of showbiz: an EGOT.
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After his junior year of high school, Jake moved out to Los Angeles with his brother to pursue their showbiz careers.
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Bette Davis will have you know that showbiz is a lonely life, when in fact the experience was quite the opposite.
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We signed off with invented names: some of his were Mr. Showbiz, Milton Keynes, Rhoda Borrocks, and the Duke of Ear.
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Jeff thinks that's vital for a child star in showbiz, and with their guidance ... Darci could be the next Shari Lewis.
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In the age of Trump, national politics is showbiz — self-righteous performance art to make the base feel good about itself.
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Noah Brady, a co-artistic director of Fiasco, directs the story of three friends brought together, and separated by, showbiz dreams.
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And his danciness can borrow from ballet, hip-hop, vogueing, showbiz, the release technique of postmodern dance and many other idioms.
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"I've been trying to get some sleep because I'm on showbiz time," Gaga told me this afternoon in a phone call.
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After 'The Sound of Music,' Carr left showbiz to become an interior designer ... and took on famous clients, like Michael Jackson.
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But, others sit through three-plus hours of Hollywood pageantry to figure out where the soul of showbiz presides at the moment.
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Richards, now 213, is a Chicago area native who entered showbiz through modeling as a teen after her family moved to California.
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The 34-year-old actor started in showbiz when he was young, which left him vulnerable to public criticism about his body.
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Musician Alexa Ray Joel, 31, actor Jack Brinkley Cook, 21, and model Sailor Brinkley Cook, 18 think they inherited her showbiz instincts.
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"Congrats to @ryanseacrest who became the luckiest man in showbiz (again) and got announced as @kellyripa's new cohost on @livekelly," he wrote.
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When it comes to showbiz, however, Marisa is more concerned with Alex's well-being should she finally hit the silver screen herself.
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Even though he's not a comic, he talks about showbiz in a certain way and understands that there's a presentation to it.
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Ten years later, the women live in more comfortable circumstances in Los Angeles and have returned as conquering showbiz heroes of sorts.
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He went on to work in a management capacity with Zulu affiliate Doug E. Fresh, rappers Showbiz & A.G., and dance group Snap!.
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It's turning into quite a showbiz mystery, actually ... one that started when Ja'Net's death certificate was released this week by L.A. County.
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Today, after an acting career best known for his Luke Skywalker portrayals, Mr. Hamill, 65, lives in the showbiz enclave of Malibu.
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A self-described working-class, Midwestern dork, Kenney's tale has a lot of familiar boy-makes-good-in-showbiz wrinkles to it.
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A course like this might not get you a glitzy new career in showbiz, but it could help you impress your boss.
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But the needs of the showbiz folks don't always correspond with the traditions and preferences of the festivals — which can create some awkwardness.
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But a few years of the spotlight was enough for the young starlet and, in the early 90s, she left showbiz for good.
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The Science and Showbiz of Hypnosis, a new book by "The Singing Hypnotist" Christopher Green, explores the visual legacy of this gendered practice.
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They were each energetic showmen who drew comparisons to the hardest working man in showbiz who they once joined onstage together -- James Brown.
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For two seasons now, Tales from the Tour Bus has collected musicians' wildest anecdotes about life on the road, playing alongside showbiz legends.
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"It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep," the former reality TV star said.
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Season two's showbiz story involves trying to make the GLOW within GLOW the best show it can be, the better to avoid cancellation.
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They get an intern named Ines, who's experience mirrors the crappy interactions many of us had with showbiz internships circa 1999 to 2007.
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While the president enjoys at best sparse backing in Hollywood, his election has produced its share of showbiz winners, and less demonstrably losers.
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A showbiz veteran was concerned about the prospects for "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," which opened on Thursday at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
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Magda endures chemotherapy, loses her hair and has a mastectomy, but avoids (this being showbiz) the many other grueling manifestations of the treatment.
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"I feel like I know showbiz people who are superstars and think they are only as good as their last thing," she said.
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Never met her, she knows ZERO about me, has NO talent, and truly doesn't have the 'it' factor needed for success in showbiz.
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While the Daily Mail reporters upload their photos to Twitter, I crawl back to the press area in search of more showbiz freebies.
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Both plays pit a pair of seasoned showbiz men against a younger woman who may not be quite as green as she looks.
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Dwarfing the gravestones, Ernesto's bold mausoleum was modeled on the monuments built to remember Mexican showbiz icons like Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete.
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It's a nice dash of glitz, a touch of showbiz (but) Bryant says the helicopter is just another tool for maintaining his body.
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As with a lot of showbiz comedy, there's an element of write-what-you-know insiderism here — gazing into one's own belly laughs.
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Never met her, she knows ZERO about me, has NO talent, and truly doesn't have the "it" factor needed for success in showbiz.
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Heather tells us she feels fabulous and is doing well ... and even hints a showbiz comeback of sorts could be in the works.
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In "Plaza Suite," the actual showbiz couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are performing together for the first time in 220 years.
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Within seconds of being on stage, he decides to leave behind his life as a professional killer and pursue his newfound showbiz dream.
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"It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep," he told the Washington Post in April.
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Plus, the essence of this story remains painfully true, cutting to the heart of the showbiz misogyny that's been all over the headlines lately.
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But wide audiences are very rare these days, and the show's grab-bag of old-style showbiz corn and contemporary naughtiness just looked confusing.
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To that point, he said he's witnessed "hypocritical" women in showbiz who are using the #MeToo movement as a shield to make false allegations.
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The story follows 10-year-old Jimmy, who wants to go into showbiz, and his mom, who works at a restaurant called Little Sneezers.
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Meanwhile, even though the former sitcom star has expressed the desire to get back into showbiz, Cosby's reputation is almost certainly damaged beyond repair.
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The older genius and the younger were not a comfortable fit, and tales of the friction between them have become part of showbiz folklore.
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Where Mr Trump, by way of showbiz glitz, had produced a couple of reality-television stars, the Democrats paraded a stream of A-listers.
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Many of Hader's best impersonations on SNL were plucked from vintage showbiz: Vincent Price, John Barrymore, Peter Falk, Peter O'Toole, Rod Serling, Alan Alda.
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Altogether around a dozen people voiced their intention to run for the presidency, among them a showbiz celebrity who was also a Playboy model.
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The premise felt like one more cynical take on showbiz shallowness and debauchery — "Entourage" and "Episodes" crammed into two ends of a horse costume.
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"It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep," the man himself told The Washington Post.
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"It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep," he said, according to The Washington Post.
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"Among showbiz types, being a Stern fan is something like belonging to a secret society," said Andy Richter, the longtime sidekick of Conan O'Brien.
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Equally, it's worth considering what makes bands come back once they've left the world of showbiz behind, besides obvious reasons like money or applause.
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As the virtual godfather of Las Vegas in the 50s and 60s, Rosselli knew most of the big showbiz stars who played the showrooms.
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Even after the ship goes down and people are on the verge of death, Ms. Reynolds's face is wet with both water and showbiz.
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This showbiz truth gets an extended play in the last third of "Strike a Pose," as the six dancers meet for a filmed dinner.
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As in "The Special," Mr. Davis delights in hackneyed showbiz talk, catchphrases (he tries hard to make "yaas, honey" a thing) and industry jargon.
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These two lives lost in an area known for bright sun and the glamour of showbiz show the sharp divide in a nationwide dialogue.
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In fact, the first pop culture entity on our list is human The heiress to the Smith-Pinkett-Smith showbiz empire turned 15 on Oct.
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The front-runner is "La La Land," a musical about two young lovers pursuing their showbiz dreams in Los Angeles when they're not fighting traffic.
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Michael Buble has just revealed how devastating his son's cancer diagnosis was ... it has fundamentally altered his life to the point he may quit showbiz.
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The home Hayden Panettiere was living in when she was breaking into showbiz as a child star is now on the market for $1.75 million.
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The Hustlers star has said in the past she's all for her kids pursuing a career in showbiz — as long as it's what they want.
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The project allowed Hill, who started in showbiz when he was young, to reflect on the public criticism about his body he received early on.
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Mark McGrath's dropping some good ole showbiz wisdom on Justin Bieber when it comes to his now canceled world tour -- THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety That's part of the magnetic pull of this version — it, too, is a romance heightened by the seductive cruel mirror of showbiz.
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The trailer offers a look at the film's remarkable all-star ensemble, as they prance, prowl, cavort, and flop like the best felines in showbiz.
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It made for a biting showbiz satire that also felt familiar to anyone who's had to fake their way through an awkward meeting or dinner.
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Showbiz analysts' 'Spidey senses' are tingling at the prospect that the latest 'Spider-Man' movie could swoop in and save the struggling summer box office.
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One of Mr. Prince's onstage alter egos admits a special fondness for "Follies," a ravishing elegy to dashed dreams and a bygone era of showbiz.
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On Mother's Day, find a TV matriarch to suit your mood — from "Animal Moms" to a human black widow, with some showbiz varieties in between.
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"It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep," Trump told The Washington Post back in April.
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If anything, Ms. Block is a showbiz trouper, and at the very least this would be yet another adventure in a résumé full of them.
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Stoner was considered a showbiz veteran by her early teens, but fame and nonstop work took a toll on both her emotional and physical well-being.
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"This has got to be the coolest joint custody agreement in showbiz history," Mayer quipped before presenting the 2019 Song Of The Year award with Keys.
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Ansari and Yang wrote their own experiences instead of "relatable" (showbiz shorthand for "white straight cisgender male") stories that had been told hundreds of times before.
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A movement born out of long-term showbiz power imbalances has, by sparking tough conversations, enabled self-examination and change that have spread far beyond Hollywood.
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The company is expected to announce the details about its new TV streaming and news subscription services — sending showbiz-themed invites for the March 25th event.
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Compare that with the shortlists from the five years before the initial rule change: Out of the 75 selected documentaries, there were just six about showbiz.
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Which was just as well, since for a long, long while Bruce's best showbiz moment was bottom of the bill at the Theatre Royal in Bilston.
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During her panel, Brown elaborated on her decision to enter the world of showbiz, saying that it started out as a hobby to fill the weekends.
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She's been steadily ascending through basically every showbiz arena since she first made her mark on G4's gone-but-not-forgotten Attack of the Show.
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Extrapolating from this deflating moment, Ms. Graham's book is a showbiz veteran's 45-page-long "Take a chill pill" that champions self-acceptance over splashy achievement.
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It's a golden-ticket story — the kind of showbiz tale people marvel at — but it actually feels as if my mother's life has come full circle.
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But setting aside his dramatic persona to demonstrate his showbiz chops, he affectionately mocked the most-admired new musicals on Broadway as he opened the awards.
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She has previously performed at Joe's Pub, which has its own slate of seasonal cabaret: Mr. Showbiz himself, Murray Hill, presents "A Murray Little Christmas" Dec.
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Critic's Notebook In 2011, Donald J. Trump, host of "The Celebrity Apprentice," was the star of a Comedy Central roast, a familiar ritual for showbiz personae.
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The meeting is more proof Michelle's instantly become a big-time player in showbiz ... on the heels of the Obamas' deal to produce content for Netflix.
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Donald Trump has pushed for a "showbiz" convention when Republicans gather in Cleveland next week, and his finally unveiled speaker schedule delivers in part on that promise.
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If you celebrated a birthday at a ShowBiz Pizza Place location in Georgia around 1984, you just may have been served cake by a teenage Julia Roberts.
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Over a decade into their showbiz career, the act excelled at turning up the heat on their covers, making even a ubiquitous Beatles smash their very own.
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But you're not about to see her throwing out gags on 20163 Out of Ten Cats, or showing up in the showbiz section of the Mail Online.
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The Globes are notoriously a sloppy showbiz date party, so Mashable came up with a drinking game to make you feel like you're invited to the party.
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It helps that Bierdz was very sexually active in a gay epicenter, while also involved in the showbiz milieu, meaning he has lots of sexcapades to unload.
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Part sports drama, part showbiz satire, part birth-of-the-modern-woman allegory — all heartbreaking glitter-blasted humanity — Netflix's GLOW is unlike any show I've ever seen.
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But underneath the classic love story, the film tackles heavier themes of alcohol and drug abuse — and not in a romanticized, 'that's-showbiz-baby' sort of way.
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As self-serving as that is, O'Reilly is on to something in terms of "60 Minutes'" role in transforming news into showbiz, and thus a profit center.
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The interplay between the two—Deith, the grey-suited face of middle-management mediocrity, Marks, all showbiz pomp and crowd-pleasing charm—is nothing short of stunning.
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The Hollywood Reporter this week published "Creative until you die," a series of nifty — if somewhat macabrely titled — interviews about showbiz luminaries still working after age 90.
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You might remember Alison Hammond, the over-the-top showbiz reporter who turned into an Internet star after this hilarious interview with Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.
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And that look of grudging respect on Offred's face as Serena Joy starts in on her showbiz razzle-dazzle at the banquet is a lovely grace note.
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Mr. Trump is the bona fide television sensation, a former maestro of a hit reality series, and he had promised to bring some "showbiz" to the proceedings.
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At what point will some savvy marketer take a page from showbiz joints like the Carnegie Deli, or Canters in LA, and offer sandwiches named for stars?
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Over a spring break, she taught herself how to use GarageBand, a sound recording app, and created her first episode, about the showbiz struggles of Kim Novak.
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Hugh Jackman is a shape-shifting master of showbiz: as the big-screen Wolverine, ripped and brooding; as a charismatic song-and-dance man, ripped and Broadway.
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They had heard rumors, however, that at their next competition, an event called Showbiz, in Hackensack, N.J., they'd be competing alongside a team called the Larkin Dancers.
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Just to give you an idea why Michael says it will be "the pinnacle" of his showbiz life -- we asked what's his favorite movie of all time.
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The contrast between Helen's serio-comic misadventures in showbiz and the life led decades later by Joanie, the daughter of Cole and Alison Lockhart, feels deliberately drawn.
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Most folks think Meghan's destined to return to showbiz -- Harry recently pitched her voice-over work to Disney's Bob Iger -- and Charlie's definitely on board with that.
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In American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978), the titular subject spins yarns about his incredible life in showbiz, as a drug peddler, and so on.
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As indicated by Derek McLane's warehouse of a set, stuffed with the detritus of decades of showbiz, it is a story about theatrical artists, vivid and nostalgic.
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Much is asserted and nothing's proven, and yet you do come to understand how a mix of showbiz and fandom brought so many boys into Jackson's life.
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Christina Aguilera has faced plenty of adversity over her decades in showbiz, but the singer has no regrets when she looks back on her journey to pop superstardom.
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Even if the Queen doesn't see her newly minted granddaughter-in-law in this film, she will apparently have plenty of opportunities to support Markle's return to showbiz.
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It's a catch 22 for "Blair" -- winning the show could unlock a showbiz career, but doing the show at all could land his ass in a jail cell.
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The Hustlers actress has said in the past that she's all for her kids pursuing a career in showbiz — as long as it's what they want to do.
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One thing was certain at night two of the Democratic National Convention: Hillary Clinton delivered on the "showbiz" convention Donald Trump promised but couldn't pull off for himself.
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And because a 48th Street and Broadway location apparently means that Krispy Kreme is in showbiz now, stadium-style seating will be another standout feature of the store.
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It was a meaningless eccentricity from a showbiz candidate going nowhere, a sign of the unreality of his campaign and of his own strange place in American culture.
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"GLOW" certainly zeroes in on the period, providing another look at the seamy side of showbiz, tilted here more toward industrial warehouses and rundown apartments than red carpets.
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Small adjustments are made to give Showbiz the edge over Chuck E. Cheese, including a room where moms can go to watch soap operas while the kids play.
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Like the hugely successful Queen movie "Bohemian Rhapsody", it is a rags-to-riches tale of flamboyant showbiz glory and the perils of a rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
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Back when a young M. Night Shyamalan first broke the news of his showbiz career plans to his family — who are all doctors — his father wasn't exactly impressed.
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As Jeff Greene on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Jeff Garlin plays Larry David's best friend and manager who occasionally gets swept up in his client's showbiz shenanigans in Hollywood.
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Chenoweth repeatedly brought her two, highly individual backup vocalists, Crystal Monee Hall and Marissa Rosen, into the spotlight for solos, and asked them about their starts in showbiz.
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"Back then, the kids-and-family business was a bit quiet," said Mr. Linden, a lawyer who speaks with a mixture of deadpan corporate speak and showbiz pragmatism.
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In showbiz, Trump was the star who, according to Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood" tape fame, consistently tried to deceive reporters with false claims about his TV ratings.
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The surface of the wipes shows up any trace of showbiz sherbet with a blue mark, and apparently the toilets in the reception area came out particularly blue.
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That's one major thing that separates him from America's other showbiz president, Ronald Reagan: Unlike Reagan, Trump doesn't have a genial, cheerfully paternal star image to work with.
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In March, a member of YG's boyband Big Bang quit showbiz over sex bribery accusations, prompting police investigations and the resignation of four K-pop stars including him.
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At the final awards ceremony at Showbiz, the overall championship trophy stood behind the crowds of children, beside a table that sagged with the weight of smaller trophies.
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Last month, Comedy Central announced the return of David Spade, who previously hosted "The Showbiz Show," a parody of celebrity news programs, on the network from 2005-2007.
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When the plucky farm girl Ann Darrow (Christiani Pitts) arrives in Manhattan intent on making it big in showbiz, it's with an explicit streak of post-liberation consciousness.
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But the use of cheesy reenactments to flesh out the story, coupled with the giddiness of some interviewees, inject a little too much showbiz pizzazz into the proceedings.
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Once a month, the hosts Matteo Lane and Christi Chiello pit two showbiz icons against each other and have comedians figuratively duke it out to crown one queen.
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But with "Game of Thrones" about to end, why would Ms. Headey leave the showbiz capital at the moment of her highest profile in a 25-year career?
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Another skill required was performance, which I had long relished anyway; PR was a venue where I had my own stage, to enact the pageant of showbiz and sales.
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When the actor was younger, he spoke about how if showbiz didn't end up working out for him, he could "always play the blues" in his hometown of Knoxville.
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Though the group contains some of Hollywood's biggest names — Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Viola Davis, and Emma Watson, to name a few — this isn't strictly about women in showbiz.
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The show also benefits from featuring actors like Michael Rapaport and Stephen Tobolowsky in recurring roles as some of the loony showbiz power players whose whims Floyd must endure.
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Despite Mr. Trump's promise of a showbiz convention, celebrities are taking about the typical number of speaking slots, and none approach the recognition of previous speakers like Clint Eastwood.
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In a city synonymous with showbiz, food trends, health trends (and basically any other trend), it's all the more important to know where the little pockets of darkness lay.
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We broke the story ... Jussie's showbiz job offers have completely dried up since he was arrested and charged for allegedly orchestrating a fake attack in Chicago in late January.
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These days, when we talk about "showbiz," we have to adjust for deflation, because it just doesn't mean as much as it did when Ms. Reynolds was a star.
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"La La Land" succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity.
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It's the setup for a whopping emotional payoff in the surprise final number, in which a son gives his mother a valentine that could only be delivered in showbiz.
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It's hard to see the audience for a sketch imagining a focus group for a movie, where kids act like showbiz veterans, talking about Elizabeth Banks or Mark Ruffalo.
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Lady Gaga has proudly presented herself as the continuation of generations of song-and-dance showbiz troupers, a tradition of fervent effort and well-rehearsed spectacle delivered with joy.
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Her first was Torchy Brown in From Dixie to Harlem, about a clever young woman who makes her way to New York City to chase a career in showbiz.
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The two leaders represent the same strain of a rising global culture: that of viciously xenophobic tabloids, politically biased infotainment TV, tacky showbiz, irresponsible populism, rabid nativism, and oligarchic kleptocracy.
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As time went on, Steve realized that she was drugging Groucho and trying to manipulate him for her own showbiz career and kept him separate from his family and children.
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After her death in 2010, LaRue inherited all of McClanahan's belongings and much of her showbiz memorabilia, which he plans to use to decorate the walls of Rue La Rue.
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Together with former Soviet and Russian hockey players, ministers and showbiz celebrities, Putin founded an "NHL" of his own - the Night Hockey League - and he often wins its annual cups.
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Through the showbiz magic known as "pressuring Showtime into giving him final-cut authority," Lynch recently pulled off the single most avant-garde hour of TV in the medium's history.
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And there is plenty of good-natured showbiz byplay, much of it provided by the showboat's eager-beaver dance team, Ellie May and Frank (Amanda Pulcini and Daniel Scott Walton).
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We got the rapper at LAX this week, and he tells us the award for the best necks in showbiz goes to 2 actresses already known for being smoke shows.
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In a new sketch, the Late Late Show's James Corden reunited with his showbiz BFF Neil Patrick Harris to deliver a few singing telegrams to the people of Los Angeles.
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Beth Chapman's upcoming memorial service -- where thousands are expected -- is being run like a major Hollywood production, which is why showbiz vet Kim Fields is running point ... TMZ has learned.
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Norm Macdonald is no friend of the #MeToo movement ... and the comedian is tired of seeing showbiz types like Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K. having their careers ruined by scandals.
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Refn went for some big hot pseudo-profound take about innocence and showbiz with the Jesse story, and that's where his himbo film bro dumbness is laid the most bare.
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After several attempts at securing her own TV show over the years, it now seems likely that she will finally be breaking into showbiz via her own paranormal reality show.
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Jerry Seinfeld has been doing stand-up comedy since the mid-1970s, and through the ups and downs of showbiz, he's learned some valuable lessons on careers, failure — and bees.
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Combining pure athleticism and artistic talent, the ballerina is one of the most versatile performers in showbiz — and a prima ballerina notably has the highest honor within the ballet company.
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Yet even this screen doesn't quite compare to the experience of stewing under a film of takeaway grease on the sofa, so I decide that I'm done with showbiz reporting.
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After more than 30 years in showbiz, the rock star just released her eleventh and final album, Threads, a collection of collaborations with everyone from Keith Richards to Brandi Carlile.
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Daniel Franzese says it's time to usher in a new season of celebrating bigger gay dudes -- on the heels of Hot Girl Summer -- because it's long overdue, especially in showbiz!!!
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Disney and Nick shows are notorious in showbiz for being a graveyard for writers who either used to work on network comedies or wanted to but never got the chance.
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The gym scene "mambo" is not, rhythmically, a mambo, and the famous rooftop number "America" has the Sharks dancing a Spanish-from-Spain paso doble mishmashed with whitewashed showbiz jazz.
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Showbiz satire, as when Bubbly eventually moves to New York and auditions for a creepy, Bob Fosse-like genius, should not mix with the unvarnished pain of racism in America.
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I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice that a man whose signature line in showbiz was "You're fired" turns out to be spectacularly incompetent even in this respect.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A showbiz decade marked by the emergence of the #MeToo movement, drama at Oscar time and a clutch of star-studded royal weddings is drawing to a close.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A showbiz decade marked by the emergence of the #MeToo movement, drama at Oscar time and a clutch of star-studded royal weddings is drawing to a close.
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JAZZ HOP and SHOWBIZ were two of the only entries that would cross the two theme entries in this layout, and since they were both lively, I stuck with them.
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Certainly they are a model of showbiz synergy; the two actors are currently appearing together in the Netflix movie "Velvet Buzzsaw," and Mr. Gyllenhaal previously starred in "Constellations" on Broadway.
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But the former star of his own reality show "The Apprentice" is a TV veteran who has promised to throw out the traditional convention script and provide a "showbiz" feel.
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Though we've had our ears to the ground for months now, even before Golden Globe nominations were announced in early December, it's only in January that this showbiz stuff gets real.
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The actor's latest is the dimwitted movie star Baird Whitlock in the showbiz satire Hail, Caesar, opposite a slew of A-listers: Channing Tatum, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson, Jonah Hill and .
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At a time when even the president of the United States owes a debt to reality TV, the intersection of life and showbiz celebrated by "Chicago" nowadays seems all too real.
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Monty Python's brand of sketch comedy was innovative and absurdist, which will no doubt mean this showbiz turducken will be brimming with self-deprecating jokes and even more meta-meta-commentary.
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" Now 34 years old, Rimes has been in showbiz for more than 20 years, rising to fame at the age of 13 with her cover of the Bill Mack song "Blue.
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Yu, who runs a clothing business in China, said that she aspired to look like Fan Bingbing, who is regarded as one of the most beautiful Chinese woman in showbiz now.
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Dev wanted to do a food travel show, but Jeff (who is always right) pointed out the showbiz newbie doesn't have enough star power to carry such an expensive project solo.
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Now retired from the showbiz spectacle of modern day kickboxing, "the Hydro" is now training up a new generation of fellas out of the Vos Gym where he learned his game.
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They're the ones who say, "Stand-up is for fucking idiots, anyone can do stand-up," and they put that in the hatred of the left because showbiz let them down.
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February, 2015 Gaga burnishes further her showbiz credentials with a medley of songs from The Sound of Music, performed at the Academy Awards in celebration of the movie musical's 50th anniversary.
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As you know, nearly all of showbiz is in shutdown mode due to the coronavirus pandemic -- and all those folks normally in front of a camera, are now stuck at home.
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The biggest contender from the festival has got to be Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood," with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as faded showbiz figures navigating 1960s Hollywood.
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And some of Mr. McNally's habitual flourishes show through the play's surface like the underpainting of a different picture: the showbiz references, the orotund dialogue, the frequent intrusion of classical music.
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I would comb the Daily Mail showbiz sidebar, the National Enquirer, and pick quotes from these aforementioned factually ambiguous emails to put together an ideas list for the editors in meetings.
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" In its detail-rich recreation of period showbiz, "Fosse/Verdon" — whose producers include Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Joel Fields and Lin-Manuel Miranda — might recall Ryan Murphy's "Feud: Bette and Joan.
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That venerable showbiz tradition remains dear to the British public, and my audience reacted to Mr. Brooks's rimshot jokes as if they were greeting beloved old, wacky relatives at a reunion.
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While the program focuses more generally on rectifying the gender imbalance in Hollywood, and not specifically on ending sexual harassment in the showbiz workplace, Schaffer sees all these issues as interconnected.
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There is one aspect of Mr. Trump's character that Mr. Baldwin, a fellow showbiz personality, captures intuitively: his vanity, as expressed by Mr. Trump's history of presenting curiously hyperbolic medical reports.
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But if someone genuinely cracks his code, without economic or showbiz-related pretenses, The Entity opens up with humility, offering more attention and care than the world's most experienced flight attendant.
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It was a rinky-dink series, produced in the middle of the country, by smart, funny people who hadn't been ground through the mill of either New York or Los Angeles showbiz.
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For many hopefuls who aren't blessed into legacy Hollywood families, the barrier to entry for creatives in the film industry can seem almost impossible without a leg up from existing showbiz professionals.
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"Never in my long showbiz life has such a prominent and important politician attended a truly underground nightlife show starring the most diverse misfits and queer people in the city," Hill said.
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Although TV has no shortage of shows built around comics and their lives -- or for that matter, pulling back the curtain on showbiz -- this one captures that moment before success kicks in.
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Despite Mars' embrace of old-fashioned showbiz pizzazz and influences like Prince, Jackson, and now Brown, he is also crucially unlike these artists because he doesn't have the same transgressive cultural effect.
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"Show executives and NBC had offered Harry and her an invitation to celebrate with the biggest stars around, meet her showbiz friends and even present an honor," the insider told the publication.
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Here's mine: Simmons has always had impeccable showbiz instincts, knowing how to market his message and how to be his one-of-a-kind self and still fit into the cultural conversation.
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J.R. Smith played chuckling sideman to LeBron's Sinatra, the full old-time showbiz experience for the crowd and the audience at home: THE CAVS, LIVE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE COURT.
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And what showbiz story captured the cultural zeitgeist this week better than the tale of Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood titan who has (finally) been accused in print of decades of sexual harassment?
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The Clintons' showbiz friends Harry and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason assigned her three fashion consultants — one each for her makeup, hair and wardrobe — and her headbands were consigned to the dustbin of history.
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In this kitschy update, Bartel shifts his focus away from aloof bohemian artistes to desensitized showbiz hacks, represented here by a fickle studio executive (Richard Paul) and narcissistic director named Schreck (Bartel).
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"Eighteen to twenty-one is a hard time for the showbiz-starving kid whose parents just got divorced, so she doesn't exactly, like, know what home she's coming back to," she said.
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Also, meeting an A-list celebrity like Kevin Bacon early in his career gave Randy this illusion that he too could be in store for that one in a million showbiz career.
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The issue for any director of this musical is to decide whether to play it straight or adopt a tone of gentle irony in the face of a cascade of showbiz clichés.
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The author of "Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life" said the presumptive presidential nominee's camp is likely to call in favors from any and all celebrity friends for the big show.
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Won for: Best actress, limited series or TV movie 'The fifth episode is a glimpse of what 'Fosse/Verdon' might have been, if it were less attached to its showbiz-downfall template.
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Opening arguments began on Monday in a civil trial about a Broadway musical that never came to be, a real-life drama that, even by showbiz standards, stretched the suspension of disbelief.
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This show was Barnum's final stop in New York after nearly 150 years of performing, part of the startling end for a storied showbiz institution, for decades a symbol of American ambition.
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The other hosts for "Countryfile," most of them in their 30s, grew up watching him, he says, adding that he has disproved the showbiz injunction to avoid working with children and animals.
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Daytime-drama star Kelly Kruger isn't letting morning sickness or bizarre pregnancy cravings dull her glam showbiz date nights with husband Darin Brooks as they prepare for the imminent arrival of their daughter.
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And I hate poor people that feel a need to puff up their bios so they can better fit in with the rich – you meet a lot of Talented Mr. Ripleys in showbiz.
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In the new issue of PEOPLE, the pop icon, 73, looks back on his 50-year career in showbiz and the private world he shares with his manager husband, longtime love Garry Kief.
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The singer's follow-up to "Rhinestone Cowboy" was another personal statement from Campbell, an expression of discomfort and dissatisfaction with big-city fame and showbiz success sung by the sharecropper's son from Arkansas.
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There are files everywhere: politics in the living room, medicine in the kitchen, sport in the bathroom, religion in the bedroom, three rooms of showbiz, and an attic crammed with crime and fashion.
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In following the show's chronologically reversed path of a successful film producer — from middle age in Hollywood to his idealistic youth in Manhattan — the production brings out the sharpness in the showbiz satire.
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Though "Circus Polka" (1972) is danced to Stravinsky music by dozens of children from the School of American Ballet and the principal Ask la Cour, it's a perfect example of Robbins's showbiz flair.
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Their antics earned the notice of Billboard magazine, whose reviewer wrote, "Martin and Lewis do an afterpiece that has all the makings of a sock act," using showbiz slang for a successful show.
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But when they did start planning, Mr. Cosentino's 30-plus years in the events business kicked in, and the proposal took on showbiz drama, or more specifically, a reality-show type of drama.
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Mr. Nicholaw's production practices the gospel of razzle-dazzle showbiz that is preached by its leading catalyst (and villain), a double-dealing manager named Curtis Taylor Jr. (the snake-hipped Joe Aaron Reid).
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Directed by Bob Sarles and Berns's son Brett, with narration written by the Berns biographer Joel Selvin (also interviewed here), the documentary packs a lot of showbiz lore into its brisk running time.
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The Post just hits so many of the right buttons, so effectively, that it seems like something made in a lab to win big showbiz awards handed out by happily comforted and inspired Democrats.
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That show, which starred Shandling as himself, but a showbiz version of himself, was unique for the sometimes-confusing line it drew between real life and Hollywood (or real-life Shandling and Hollywood Shandling).
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In the original production, life imitated art, or at least showbiz, in the case of Bernadette Peters, then unknown, who replaced another actor and pealed her way to stardom as the show's ingénue, Ruby.
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While on set for the Red Nose Day edition of Hollywood Game Night (airing Thursday), the singer, 37, opened up exclusively about her 4-year-old daughter River Rose taking after her showbiz ambitions.
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Immediately following the shootings, several people in the media and in showbiz paid "tribute" to us and encouraged us to not let hate win and to remember what makes us such an amazing city.
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During our interview, Kasher laughed at the interaction, remembering himself in the moment as the worst kind of showbiz monster, demanding that all of society's complexity be distorted and compressed into a marketable product.
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It's like being just outside a dream and makes one damn the cheapskates at the BBC for erasing the tapes of Springfield and Walker's respective tv shows in all their showbiz sweet hokum glory.
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Their strategy is rooted in the belief that Netflix doesn't need to choose between quality and quantity, that the eternal showbiz question of whether to go for mass or prestige is a false choice.
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In the 2011 Broadway revival of "Follies," Stephen Sondheim and William Goldman's 1971 musical about the ghosts of showbiz past, she played the disenchanted socialite Phyllis as a figure of glittering fire and ice.
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In your final Carson appearance, Steve, you played the magician the Great Flydini, and it struck me both you and Marty have an affinity for old-school showbiz but also love to satirize it.
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A veteran of Hollywood since his early twenties, when he worked on such hits as Sanford & Son, Shandling clearly loved showbiz, what with its weirdo occupants, deftly managed ego battles, and raw reservoirs of talent.
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All of which led Colbert to coyly ask Reeves what he thought happened when we die — a ludicrously weighty question for the average talk-show exchange, but a perfect one for the bodhisattva of showbiz.
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When it comes to booking the big showbiz entertainment Donald Trump promised for jazzing up his Republican National Convention, Third Eye Blind and Rick Springfield want to be very clear that they are not it.
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Is Markle, in some sense, the modern-day equivalent of one of Edith Wharton's "buccaneers," giving a titled Old World family an infusion of showbiz cool (instead of cash from a New World industrial fortune)?
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We spoke to her about making sense of the archive's chaos, people's obsession with showbiz gossip, and what she's going to do now that the internet has just about made her collection of clippings moot.
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A little more than eight months ago, the United States inaugurated one of its worst people as president, a nasty showbiz huckster whose own staffers speak of him as if he were a malevolent toddler.
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Before this messy-haired girl would grow up to star in movies alongside big names like Heath Ledger, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Damon and Jennifer Lopez ... she began hustling in showbiz at age 11.
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"The people that stole from me didn't need to," he told the comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff in an interview for the website Classic Television Showbiz in 2011, referring to other comedians who did Sullivan impressions.
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But that's showbiz: Some of the 100 guests, and most of the evening's performers, were Broadway actors, composers, producers — and Mondays are when Broadway theaters are dark, meaning casts and crews are available for socializing.
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Jeff Bridges, playing a fading country singer in the 2009 film "Crazy Heart," relied on a steel-and-gold Rolex Submariner to add a dash of showbiz glamour to his faded dungarees and dusty Stetson.
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" In a statement to Good Morning America on Monday, Christie joked about her injury: "Showbiz is all about getting a break, and Sailor and I both got one on Dancing with the Stars this season.
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" Attell actually has had a successful showbiz career, which includes host of cult shows on Comedy Central ("Insomniac") and Showtime ("Dave's Old Porn"), along with brief stints on "The Daily Show" and "Saturday Night Live.
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Dispensing with his usual jeans and a T-shirt, he wore a skinny tie and a black suit, a costume that made him look less like a slovenly everyman than the showbiz star that he is.
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Never met her," Trump tweeted, but immediately contradicted his feigned ignorance of the TV host, writing, "she knows ZERO about me, has NO talent, and truly doesn't have the 'it' factor needed for success in showbiz.
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His theater work, often in collaboration with David Mamet, features Jay's sleight of hand, his passion for showbiz history and a lascivious joy in the polysyllabic mot juste — the last nicely on show in this book.
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Applegate noted that Henderson had lived "many showbiz lifetimes" during her long career, which included years on Broadway, spells on "The Tonight Show" and playing the beloved matriarch Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch," among others.
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After months of saying he wanted a convention that would feature the sort of "showbiz" that past party conclaves lacked, Mr. Trump will arrive here Monday for a more traditional gathering than he may have envisioned.
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This hot showbiz shrub of yesteryear, which goes by the name of Audrey II, has found a new dance partner, a performer who can coax the tendril-stretching star quality out of a freakish botanical specimen.
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There is also the question of long-term sustainability: Even if the Void does take off, what makes it more than a fad — the laser tag, motion-simulator ride or ShowBiz Pizza arcade of its day?
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But when I let myself see the movie as a fairy tale, as something going for emotional realism rather than the showbiz-today literalism I was looking for at first, I relaxed and just enjoyed the spectacle.
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For Mr. Jagger, the ongoing production of "Vinyl" has been his introduction to one of very few showbiz experiences he has never had before, and a continual lesson in how much to be involved in the process.
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For a streaming service to be announced tomorrow, Apple spent two years securing deals with showbiz royalty — Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon, the L.A. Times' Ryan Faughnder and Wendy Lee write on the front page.
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The Other Two stars Drew Tarver and Heléne Yorke as siblings Cary and Brooke, who both nursed showbiz dreams but have largely come to realize those dreams probably aren't coming true as they settle into their 30s.
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Its showbiz satire The Larry Sanders Show (1992-19033) garnered considerable Emmy attention, and its made-for-TV movies regularly became awards magnets, with even a few film critics praising them as good enough for the multiplexes.
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With only the modest but sturdy all-American designer Todd Snyder to serve as its tent pole, the men's week may have lacked some of the showbiz pizazz associated with big-name designers, as Mr. Kolb conceded.
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Each person was dressed with a singular sense of humor and character, as if they had randomly drawn a bizarro archetype from a hat: Sports But Make It Showbiz, Goth Schoolgirl Orphan, Kids By Way Of PBS.
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So I (and much of our crew) feel disoriented and befuddled -- as if we&aposre in one of those showbiz nightmares where you can&apost find your way back to the stage in time for the next cue.
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I Can Only Imagine came from what has largely existed as a miniature parallel Christian showbiz universe with its own big-name filmmakers, its own festivals, its own recurring stars (like Kirk Cameron, Sarah Drew, and Kevin Sorbo).
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Surrender the Pink (1990): A crassly titled romance novel, Surrender the Pink is about a soap opera screenwriter who falls in and out of love with an imperfect man, and finds it difficult to separate showbiz from reality.
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Though the singer has cut his hair and traded in showbiz threads for a bank manager's suit, the images maintain a disorienting effect, borrowing from the grit of American film noir and the cool of French New Wave.
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The Netflix comedy took the frenetic blend of topical jokes, non sequiturs and inspired silliness Mr. Carlock and Ms. Fey developed for the showbiz satire "30 Rock" and transplanted it to the world of plucky New York strivers.
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As you, me, or any other headline-thirsty showbiz publication knows, the latest way to a female reader's heart isn't by describing a Hollywood hunk's strong jawline or remarkably chiseled abs—it's by ascertaining his social justice credentials.
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What's left is showbiz He also likened the EU to Hitler, said "voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts," and has frequently expressed his burning desire to reintroduce the red squirrel to the British ecosystem.
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Many had assumed that Trump's television experience would lend itself to bringing more flair to the convention in Cleveland — Trump told The Washington Post in April that he wanted to add "showbiz" touches to the typically drab event.
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The French film industry gets the "Curb Your Enthusiasm"/"Extras" treatment with this inside-showbiz satire, mixing real stars of their big and small screens with the fictional exploits of a rapidly splintering and highly dysfunctional talent agency.
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The French film industry gets the "Curb Your Enthusiasm"/"Extras" treatment with this inside-showbiz satire, mixing real stars of their big and small screens with the fictional exploits of a rapidly splintering and highly dysfunctional talent agency.
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It's no surprise why Hollywood loves the show, with its period trappings and knowing cultural and showbiz references, like Susie being told that she needs a "weird ask," contractually, to demonstrate that her client is really a star.
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January 133 After five years of anthropomorphism, showbiz satire and light surrealism — all threaded with some genuinely moving contemplation of what it means to be happy and successful — "Bojack Horseman" comes to an end with eight more episodes.
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" And there was also the return of one of my personal favorites, "Gumby," the green Claymation children's character that Murphy had reinvented as a cranky, profanity spewing, cigar-smoking, showbiz agent, whose catch phrase was, "I'm Gumby, dammit!
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With her real-life family as her co-stars, and her daughter Bridey Elliott as the film's writer and director, Paula steals the spotlight in a story that reflects, warps and magnifies the thorny dynamics of showbiz households.
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The budget for his address, normally a top event on the social calendar of the country's political and showbiz elite, was scaled back dramatically and Duterte told guests to dress down, reflecting his disdain for opulence and lavish spending.
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Among the non-showbiz-related favorites are Mr. Oppenheimer's "The Look of Silence," an intimate companion piece to his earlier work about Indonesia; "Going Clear," Alex Gibney's profile of Scientology; and "Cartel Land," about vigilantes fighting Mexico's drug wars.
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It had started with Hamilton giving the great Jamaican a taxi ride to remember around the track, continued with a showbiz entry to the grid and ended with the pair of them adapting Bolt's trademark pose on the podium.
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Between their keen sensibilities, a mountain of reference material and a painstaking juxtaposition of the everyday glamor and banality of showbiz, Becker has been delivering an exhaustively rendered Hollywood that begs for rewinding and rewatching in each new episode.
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But Ms. McKay succeeded in bringing to loving life what drew her to "Enter Talking" in the first place: a faded era of American "showbiz," as she likes to put it, with its cigar-chomping agents and musty clubs.
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There are a couple ways you might expect a hit-man-in-Hollywood story to go: The killer teaches a few lessons to the showbiz phonies, or he discovers that crime has given him unique insights into human nature.
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Each successfully tweaked its ostensible genre's tone — "Killing Eve" bringing glam, humor and humanity to the often grim espionage thriller, and "Barry" adding icy violence and a sense of true danger and surprise to the showbiz black-comedy genre.
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Shortly thereafter she appeared on the Saturday morning series Superfriends and subsequent cartoons, where she was voiced by a series of actresses, but it's just too weird not to mention that Wonder Woman got her showbiz start with The Brady Kids.
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An enduring career in showbiz, a charming and devoted husband, an impressive eye for style, a damn fine s'mores cupcake recipe, and legs for days: There are plenty of things about Blake Lively's life that one could be envious of.
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Young, whose memoir of a failed stint as a showbiz reporter was made into a 2008 movie, had reinvented himself as an education reform advocate, helping found a school in London run by parents under a program introduced by May's Conservatives.
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Even in the close-knit circles of showbiz and the L.A. elite, Travolta reveals that he's never met Shaprio in the flesh, but says he received a letter from him, in which he was "thrilled" Travolta would be portraying him.
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"I have no idea what I'm going to buy Beyoncé at the baby shower because Jay is going to buy that little girl every single thing possible," Rowland told BANG Showbiz at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards.
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The longer they live, the more likely it is that the generation in charge of showbiz and the media will no longer have any firsthand recollection of these actors who once breathed the same air as Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton.
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True, it ticks off all the usual scenes in the showbiz rise-and-fall genre—the meetings with key collaborators, the composing and recording of classic singles, triumphal concerts—but it does so with an impressionistic aplomb that "Bohemian Rhapsody" lacked.
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During the memorial montage of Hollywood stars who passed away so far in 2017, a bunch of TV stars, producers and other figures in showbiz were remembered except the above 4 guys ... and many people noticed the omissions, including Common.
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So Mr. Ray has taken Fitzgerald's last work — in which his love and hate for the movie business remain unresolved, while jostling for space with a death-obsessed romance — and reimagined it as a sprightly but lamentably pedestrian showbiz melodrama.
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"Obviously the fashion industry is very easy to have fun with because everybody has to take themselves seriously in it to be taken seriously and it's outsized personalities and all that, but showbiz has a lot of that too," he said.
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Now he is following his showbiz role model into politics because Zelenskiy, vowing to scrub Ukraine's parliament clean of corruption and nepotism, invited members of the public to run on his party's ticket at a parliamentary election on July 21.
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There are showbiz anecdotes as well, accounts of working with actors like Nathan Lane and Robin Williams (in two different versions of "Godot"), as well as the directors Joseph Chaikin and Mike Nichols, whose voices Mr. Irwin channels in quicksilver impressions.
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BIG SMALL PPL IN"SHOWBIZ"R NOTORIOUSLY GENEROUS& TRULY CARE ABOUT THOSE IN NEED Rapper Meek Mill raised the stakes of his meme-infused beef with rapper 50 Cent to challenge 50 Cent to match Mill's $50,000 donation to the city.
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But she considers herself a Broadway kid, and many of her friends are, too — the kind of young showbiz professionals who get it that she saw the musical "Groundhog Day" eight times, including the first night that Bill Murray was there.
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Mr. Studdard and Mr. Aiken (who gets first billing is a running gag) try to upstage each other as they trade verses of "Silent Night" and "O Come All Ye Faithful" in a showbiz arms race that's cheeseball, and very funny.
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Showbiz history is littered with contemptible acts and people, but the industry's ongoing reckoning with abusive behavior, post-Harvey Weinstein, along with the ease of exposure that social media affords, has changed the game for predatory and otherwise misbehaving entertainers.
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Vitrines at the library contain collaged homages to a chorus line of showbiz muses like Liliane Montevecchi ("the most remarkable person," said Mr. Knight, a connoisseur of the appreciative adjective), Ann Miller ("like a steam engine") and Dame Edna ("extraordinary").
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Nominating just one performer of color and then nominating her for playing Harriet Tubman feels a little like a bad joke from the old showbiz satire cartoon The Critic, but sometimes the Oscars exceed expectations for how bizarre they can get.
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Resplendently coifed, wearing drag she describes as a "bar mitzvah mother thing," Sabrina bears a slight resemblance to Joan Rivers and exhibits a showbiz savvy to match, riffing on the difficulty of finding a hotel "hip enough" to house her contestants.
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Shandling, who began his showbiz career as a writer for TV sitcoms such as "Welcome Back, Kotter" and "Sanford and Son," was transported from his Los Angeles home to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, LAPD officer Aareon Jefferson said.
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Same with "Let Love Be Your Energy" or "The Road to Mandalay" or "Rock DJ." Robbie's got that ineffable sense of showbiz about him which means he can dive headfirst into rancid pits of abjection and come up smelling of Davidoff Cool Water.
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An academic instead of showbiz family, they lived in a normal middle-class neighborhood, removed from the celebrity studded canyons, which meant Gordon daydreamed about the glamorous lives of musicians like Buffalo Springfield and Neil Young as much as a kid in Kansas.
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"Kimberly and Anthony have long been friends because he's a regular Fox contributor," the source tells PEOPLE in response to a Showbiz 411 story that claims that the two were apartment shopping together weeks before Scaramucci's wife filed for divorce in July.
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After his Disney Channel series The Suite Life on Deck ended in 2011, Sprouse took a break from showbiz to go to college, but now he's back and preparing for his role as Jughead Jones in The CW's Archie Comics adaptation Riverdale.
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At its most basic level, this is a classic showbiz strategy: When no one knows who you are, get yourself into a room with a lot of celebrities and a lot of photographers and make yourself someone who has to be noticed.
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With a new show premiering on Freeform next week, aptly titled Famous In Love, the former Disney Channel star is going through a transition that many of the biggest names in music and showbiz have gone through: from "puppet" to independent woman.
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Instead of attempting to bring Fechter over to Chuck E. Cheese, Brock used Bushnell's omission of having met Fechter as an excuse to cancel his deal with Chuck E. Cheese and starts a rival pizza chain, Showbiz Pizza, in partnership with Creative Engineering.
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Whether or not McMahon can recapture that fiery magic of the first XFL week and, this time, make it last remains to be seen, but it'll take every tool in his deep showbiz arsenal to make it work a second time around.
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When Beyoncé first announced her pregnancy back in February, she broke the internet (or at least Instagram) with a viral photo, and the news that she would be adding not one, but two new members, to the most powerful family in showbiz.
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A showbiz lunch with a hot potential agent (SNL's Ana Gasteyer, below, who steals every scene she's in) transforms Maria into a lamb; when Maria winds up back in the care of her parents in a flashback, she enters as a little girl.
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With all due respect to Beyoncé, Josephine Baker has the most famous physique in showbiz history — a body so often compared to a spring, it's only natural that an artist would try to capture her in that form, complete with spiraling breasts.
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Duh. In the immortal tradition of showbiz-in-the-sticks musicals like "Babes in Arms," the only way to save the day is to put on a show — the gimmick being that Jim's inn and club will only be open on holidays.
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At least a dozen Latinas in showbiz — such as Penélope Cruz, Ana Ortiz, Gina Rodriguez, Ana Brenda Contreras, Olga Segura, Rosario Dawson and Zoe Saldana — are among the 300 women who signed an open letter published in the New York Times on Jan.
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Adam Gopnik, a columnist and cultural commentator for The New Yorker — with the help of WNYC's Jonathan Schwartz and the actress and singer Melissa Errico — leads a multimedia exploration of the show, which is widely considered one of the greatest in showbiz history.
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Showbiz Pizza Place—which came about in 1980 after a planned Pizza Time franchisee abruptly backed out of a contract due to concerns that competing animatronic technology would outpace what Bushnell had created—had quickly grown into major competitor of Pizza Time.
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And Murray Hill — Mr. Showbiz himself — is bringing "A Murray Little Christmas" back to Joe's Pub for a holiday gathering of friends including Bridget Everett, the cabaret titan and star of "Patti Cake$" and the Amazon pilot "Love You More" (Dec. 15-17).
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And that's another thing that makes Foster such an endlessly exciting musical-comedy star (she's much less cool than her near-contemporary and only rival, Kelli O'Hara): by performing her interiority, rather than the old showbiz razzle-dazzle, she makes musicals credible.
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It is also possible to say much the same about Ivo van Hove, even if one can't quite imagine the Flemish innovator getting down and dirty in the realm of showbiz that remained Bennett's thematic, and actual, home throughout his too-brief career.
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After all, if any showbiz satire on television could plumb the depths of its main character being held accountable for past misdeeds by a #MeToo-esque movement, it's BoJack Horseman, which is as haunted by the past as any great ghost story.
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You probably think that I write those 300 words and then look at my bulging bank account and laugh long and hard, sacking the office off at half one for a very long, very boozy lunch with a few of my showbiz pals.
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Where to watch: Amazon Both films are over-the-top stories of showbiz itself and the dangers of jealousy and ego therein, but Om Shanti Om makes the unique decision in Bollywood to not have Om's (Shahrukh Khan) feelings for Shanti (Deepika Padukone) reciprocated.
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When I saw her claws rub ice cubes on her face like an otter with pebbles, something was triggered deep within me, and I grabbed the age-old baton in the relay race of self-preservation in showbiz, which can mimic, so often, self-harm.
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The filmmaker and his cast were holding court at the subsequent press conference when Nayeri pressed Tarantino about why the movie's woman lead, Margot Robbie (playing real-life Manson family murder victim Sharon Tate), had so little dialogue in the shaggy 22015s-set showbiz comedy.
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They're movies that aim not to break open forms or to reimagine storytelling, but to simply put Asian American characters front and center and declare, counter to years of showbiz bias, that they are compelling, endearing, desirable, and worthy of audience attention by themselves.
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Despite the fact that she is showbiz royalty and has dated some equally famous men, Jones really is just like the rest of us when it comes to the kinds of pressures women still face when it comes to certain expectations about family and marriage.
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" Perhaps this year's fiercest race resides in the limited-series category, where the contenders include a premium-TV feast that consists of HBO's "Chernobyl," Netflix's Central Park Five miniseries "When They See Us," Showtime's prison drama "Escape From Dannemora," and FX's showbiz drama "Fosse/Verdon.
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She started acting as a toddler — at the demand of her parents, who wanted their three daughters to be stars, according to a book by Randy L. Schmidt — and continued on in the world of showbiz until she died at the age of 47.
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The bad news is that instead of producing such a book, Mr. Miller has simply organized more than 700 pages of raw interviews in more or less chronological order — interspersed with occasional brief asides, written in the overheated prose of a showbiz trade rag.
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The nomination itself was steeped in the sort of ratings-maximizing showbiz moves Trump favors—he announced he would do the announcing at 8 PM EST (primetime, of course), then said he was bringing two finalists to Washington, DC, in advance of the nomination.
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Last year, she spent September and October opening for Eric Andre before performing the same deed for the taping of his upcoming Netflix special, and soon after, the entire Helltrap crew moved from Chicago to Los Angeles to give that thing called "showbiz" a whirl.
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She starred in the Super 8 movies he made while they were kids living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where their childhood was full of late-night showbiz parties and watching their parents work out routines based on their real-life partnership.
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It seemed equal part an earnest bid to get people off the sidelines and into a picket line and equal part showbiz hoopla aimed at bolstering a show that opened last week to mixed reviews and that has not yet caught fire with ticket buyers.
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While there are moments of wonder and horrifying stunts, like a dog being thrown out of a basket hundreds of feet in the air (thankfully equipped with an adorable mini parachute) in a fit of showbiz fancy, The Aeronauts has its painstakingly slow moments.
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That hack was sophisticated, intentional, and enormously damaging, causing $35 million in digital damage, smearing showbiz muckety mucks, and briefly holding a movie release hostage and leading to a lingering debate that threatens to soften Hollywood's ability to satirize—a tangible blow to free speech.
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As Gilda Wabbit, he channels the plucky gals who come to the big city to make it in showbiz: Nomi Malone in Showgirls, Violet Sanford in Coyote Ugly, Mariah's Billy Frank in Glitter, all wrapped up in an Ellen Green in Little Shop of Horrors aesthetic.
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Following his set playing the coveted 'legends' slot at Glastonbury 2017 last week, the former Bee Gees icon was speaking to BANG Showbiz when he weighed up the chances of an Oasis reunion after being in a band of brothers himself, with the late Robin and Maurice.
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Trump, who has said he wants the convention to have a "showbiz" feel and dismissed the 2012 convention as "boring," is still planning to unveil his running mate during the four-day festivities, a move that already adds an element of suspense absent from recent conservative confabs.
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" -July 2016 His role ahead of the Republican National Convention "It's very important to put some showbiz into a convention, otherwise people are going to fall asleep" - April 17, 2016 But then... "I didn't produce our show -- I just showed up for the final speech on Thursday.
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But Donald Trump came to this place not through his business acumen—which is nonexistent, save as a world-class grifter—but as a leading performer on reality TV. And at the Trump convention, reality showbiz continuously lit all those boring primetime production values on fire.
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It's easy to forget now, but for a while the showbiz mother-daughter association was so strong that Fisher, in character as the child of a wealthy Beverly Hills housewife, had to definitively declare that she was "nothing like her mother" in Shampoo, her film debut.
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Tracking the journey of the vessel, Peak Pegasus, as it motored toward the northern Chinese port of Dalian was the 34th-highest trending topic on the country's Twitter-like Weibo on Friday, beating out the World Cup, showbiz gossip and Beijing's escalating trade war with Washington.
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Donald J. Trump, the presumptive nominee, has been promising a different kind of Republican National Convention, and plans obtained by The New York Times show that he is eager to put his showbiz stamp on the party's gathering, even as he struggles to attract A-list talent.
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My virginity has now been taken from me — forcefully, though not disagreeably — by Amy Schumer: the 35-year-old comedian who parlayed a surge of showbiz success into a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster worth many millions of dollars more than one she had canceled with HarperCollins.
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These comedy-dramas were admired for the way they explored the tangle of love, anger and desperation that bound together — and drove apart — a Jewish working-class family, as viewed from the perspective of the youngest son, a restless wisecracker with an eye on showbiz fame.
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Bosworth's command of detail—the butterflies on her wedding dress, the caramel she spoons out during a waitressing gig, Diane Arbus's habit of wearing clothes until they're in shreds, a workshop scene with a randy Steve McQueen—makes the book more than merely a dishy showbiz memoir.
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Over the years, it has been home to a long list of notable residents, many in showbiz, among them, Beverly Sills, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, John McEnroe, Helen Gurley Brown, and Jerry Seinfeld, who now lives with his family in what was once Isaac Stern's apartment.
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Best known for his spot-on impressions of Barack Obama, Jay-Z and others on "Saturday Night Live," the comic has been too busy shooting "White Famous," his new showbiz satire on Showtime, to see much of Los Angeles since he moved there early this year.
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If The Hateful Eight represented a real nastiness nadir, Once Upon a Time has arrived as low-key relief — a melancholy and languid (until its final moments) movie about the friendship between two fading showbiz types who are getting left behind by both counterculture and the American New Wave.
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It quickly became the year's most celebrated and scrutinized episode of TV, and deservedly so: A 35-minute mix of Serling-sired twists and Jackson-jacking showbiz tragedy, "Teddy Perkins" was so blunt, so unsettlingly funny, it almost seems unfair to compare it to anything else on TV.
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Showbiz Pizza banked on kids and parents wanting the animatronics front and center instead of the framed afterthoughts of Chuck E. Cheese, and so flanked the stage with full-sized characters Fatz Geronimo, Duke Larue, Mitzi Mozarella, Rowlf Dewolfe, and Billy Bob Brockali (a nod to Robert Brock).
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The host will draw on his high-profile network of celebrity friends, entertainment executives, and crew members he's met over more than 35 years in showbiz to dig for evidence on Trump's most incriminating moments—and, being a comedian and all, he'll have a little fun along the way.
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The animated series "Bojack Horseman," in which the titular star is a hard-drinking and severely depressed anthropomorphic horse, has always embraced the dark and the bleak: Alongside the jokes, talking animals and showbiz satire are unrelenting depictions of addiction and abuse and biting critiques of institutions, especially Hollywood.
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After decades of toxicity, so central to the business that the casting couch is as much a part of showbiz iconography as the fresh-faced dreamer getting off a bus in Hollywood, the fact that consequences have finally been attached to misconduct is an idea I'm still getting used to.
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Grace Kelly left home to begin her career in showbiz, starring in such films as High Noon with Gary Cooper, Dial M For Murder with Ray Milland, Rear Window playing opposite James Stewart, To Catch A Thief, co-starring with Cary Grant and High Society with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.
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After 50 years in showbiz, Barry Manilow sat down exclusively with PEOPLE in his home recording studio at his Palm Springs estate to reminisce on his career, enduring legacy and private world ahead of the April 21 release of his latest album, This Is My Town: Songs of New York.
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Others dignitaries among the funeral guests were broadcast journalists Diane Sawyer and Tom Brokaw, California Governor Jerry Brown, former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as well as such showbiz figures as Oscar-winning actress Anjelica Huston and singer Wayne Newton.
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Recounted with deep-dive research and vivid writing, Seduction tracks the famed tycoon's showbiz career from the vantage point of the many women he pursued (and often discarded) along the way, with appearances by everyone from Jean Harlow to Katherine Hepburn, and cameos from supporting players who've been lost to time.
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It showcases her collaborations with Luchino Visconti (the showbiz melodrama "Bellissima"), Pier Paolo Pasolini ("Mamma Roma") and Federico Fellini ("Fellini's Roma"), as well as her Oscar-winning performance in "The Rose Tattoo" (in a role that Tennessee Williams is said to have tailored to her when he wrote the stage version).
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The 'Talk MMA' twitter page, who later falsely reported that McGregor had been knocked out in training on the day of NSAC hearing earlier this month, alleged that 'The Notorious' and Devlin were expecting their first born, which led to a series of reports from numerous showbiz and entertainment publications.
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When this reversed-chronology portrait — about the intersecting roads to success and disillusionment in showbiz — opened on Broadway with a young and untried cast, it not only crashed and burned; it also signaled the end of the long and fruitful years of collaboration between Sondheim and the show's director, Prince.
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While until the last decade or two the Bowery was a street you surely didn't want to end up on, there were periods when it represented the height of gentility and the peak of showbiz stardom, and in "Devil's Mile" Alice Sparberg Alexiou guides us through this checkered history with gusto.
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It's unclear why, exactly, this was—one skating expert told Deadspin it might have been considered "too showbiz," while another ventured that the fact that it was usually landed on two feet would disqualify it, as all skating jumps must be landed on a single foot, on a backward edge.
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Through them, we witness Mattie starting his career not in showbiz but as an idealistic lawyer — a public defender who first encounters Semi when the latter and a group of his friends are harassed and rounded up by the New York cops, arrested for being gay in a gay bar.
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WATCH: Chloë Grace Moretz on Rumor That She's leaving Showbiz: 'I'm not Quitting Acting The movie comes just over 50 years after Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway captured the imaginations of audiences in the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, which was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two.
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" (Showbiz 411 did mention that Guilfoyle lived in the building in a different apartment.) "He asked her if she could look with him because she knows the building so well, just to get her thoughts," explains the source, adding, "She lives in the building and he said, 'Is this a good deal?
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In true superstar tradition, he was not shy of nurturing his showbiz status: during his time at Gent, his relationship with Miss Belgium provided enough Posh-and-Becks-type fodder for two countries' tabloids; aged 20, his wedding was broadcast live on Egyptian TV, drawing in some of the year's biggest viewing figures.
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Fosse changed movies and Broadway forever, inventing an original American dance idiom: syncopated, tiny, isolated movements with shades of burlesque and showbiz with a capital S. "He added a dark sparkle, which is a hard thing to do in dance, to add negative feelings to something exuberant and vital," Mr. Wasson told me.
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She spent eight summers, starting at age 9, at Stagedoor Manor, a performing arts camp whose alumni include Natalie Portman and Lea Michele, and was so eager to get started in showbiz that she graduated from high school at 16 and enrolled in the Tisch School for the Arts at New York University.
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" On showbiz: "It's the bull who ate that shit and then shit it out again, and then ate that shit and then shit it out again, and then ate that shit and then shit it out again, and then ate that shit and then shit it out again, and now it's that bullshit.
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The authors — book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, songs by Mr. Beguelin (lyrics) and Matthew Sklar (music) — have on their combined résumés both "The Drowsy Chaperone," that peerlessly inane 1920s showbiz spoof, and "The Wedding Singer," an underrated musical comedy about an entertainer so humbled he winds up in a dumpster.
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