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...Bowie says the three albums they made together (Low, "Heroes," Lodger) "hurt. Those songs came from a very aching source. My whole cleaning-up period came through that trilogy. And I think I was successful at dropping my personas completely." Perhaps; or, anyway, dropping them as much as a showman-savant like Bowie ever can. Some lines from Ashes to Ashes come to mind: "I've never done good things/ I've never done bad things/ I've never done anything out of the blue...
With this showman's touch, Reagan told Wall Street what it longed to hear, ending months of debate and speculation about what some consider the second most powerful job in Government. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, until recently a Volcker critic: "He's the right man at the right time. In times like this you don't rock the boat...
Nunn demonstrates, as he did in his productions of Nicholas Nickleby and Cats, that he is a showman-scholar who can infuse the most daunting of projects with whirlwind grandeur. Under John Gunter's airy greenhouse of a set, All's Well teems with musical-comedy bustle: dashing cadets in aviator goggles, marching bands and sultry chanteuses, and a Florence railway station full of Nunn's beloved smoke effects. But there is gravity here as well as buoyancy. A mood of Chekhovian wistfulness is set at the start with the valse triste of a young couple fated...
...George M. Cohan, Broadway's premier showman and songwriter of the World War I era (Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy), was accused of failing to document a claim of $55,000 in expenses. Cohan won a landmark court victory in 1930, when the judge ruled that his estimated expenses were reasonable for a man in his position. "The Cohan Rule" survived until Congress passed new rules on documentation...
...Mick Jagger is like an aging but still energetic courtesan: he gives pleasure so expertly it hardly matters that his heart and guts may not be in his work. Hal Ashby's slapdash film record of the Rolling Stones' 1981 U.S. tour reveals the old showman parading his tricks with skill and snazz. Against a pointillist backdrop of thousands of shirts and faces, Jagger skip-sprints across the huge stage, towels off his crotch with his jacket, executes arabesques and aerobics, drapes himself in chiffon or Stars and Stripes or next to nothing. He sings too, though...