Word: ballyhoo
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Hollywood has been good to Alfred Uhry. His first play, Driving Miss Daisy, was turned into an enormously popular movie, which won him an Oscar. His second, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, which just opened on Broadway, seems made to order for the movies as well: an old-fashioned family comedy-drama, set in Atlanta in 1939, on the eve of the premiere of Gone With the Wind. But it's a wonderful play on its own terms--richer, more textured than the rather schematic Miss Daisy, its originality rising subtly out of familiar elements...
...socially awkward young Jewish woman, back home in Atlanta after an aborted semester at the University of Michigan. In between decorating the Christmas tree and ogling the Hollywood celebrities in town, she is trying to get a date for the big event of the Jewish social year, known as Ballyhoo. Reacting in various ways to her travails are her widowed mother; the unmarried uncle and widowed aunt who live with them; and her prettier, more socially assured cousin, home from Wellesley...
...SUPER BOWL BALLYHOO, HYPE, HOOPLA & HUBBUB...
...decision to accept him officially as a teacher, not just a visiting lecturer, has given him a new credential for his lucrative speechmaking and perhaps even his contract with ABC. Will would be a fool, and he certainly isn't one, if he or his agent did not ballyhoo his appointment to Harvard as further evidence of his credibility...
Several days before he shocked the world by becoming the most potent opposition figure in Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky stood in Moscow's largest department store to ballyhoo his candidacy for his nation's first freely elected parliament. In the midst of denouncing Boris Yeltsin's reform program, Zhirinovsky, 47, abruptly turned away from his audience, marched to a lingerie counter and seized an expensive brassiere. Twirling it on his fingers, he proclaimed that if he were voted into office, he would provide cheap underwear for his constituents...