Word: impresario
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...Cruise, the most interesting buzz surrounding Moulin Rouge has had nothing to do with the production at all. Set in 1890s Paris, Kidman plays the famous burlesque house's star performer, whose charms simultaneously catch the eye of a poor, impetuous poet (Ewan McGregor) and a wealthy, bombastic impresario (Jim Broadbent). With the former promising romance and the latter offering a chance at international stardom, the "hooker with a heart of gold" is torn between the two, and inevitable chaos ensues. Grand musical numbers and sumptuous period costumes give director Baz Luhrman an excuse to work his intensely visual style...
...inspired: when Armstrong sings "Frenchmens all/ Prefer what they call/ Lay jazz hot," Bing apostrophizes a très-français "formidable!" Satch, Trummy Young, Billy Kyle and the rest broil their venerable chops in a sweetly swingin' 12-bar blues. And Bing leads them, a simpatico impresario, with a suave verve. Beneath the famous Crosby savoir-faire, we for once sense the adolescent thrill he must have felt back in the mid-'20s, when he first heard Armstrong create the naughty form of music that Bing made nice...
...lucrative retainer it is. In November 1997, Trent Lott, the Mississippi Republican and Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senator from Kentucky who believes unlimited campaign cash is a free-speech right, flew to Las Vegas aboard the jet of casino impresario Steve Wynn to attend a gaming industry G.O.P. fund raiser. The Republicans left with $100,000--the start of something big. Within a year, additional casino contributions would boost that sum to nearly $1 million...
Part innocent, part impresario and a natural motivator on a par with the slickest infomercial guru, Pregracke has big plans. His Adopt a Mississippi Mile Program hopes to do for the father of waters what similar land-based efforts have done for the nation's highways. Once the program is on its feet, he's heading east...
DIED. ALEXANDER COHEN, 79, voluble Broadway impresario who brought the Tonys to TV and Richard Burton's Hamlet to Broadway; in New York City...