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BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS. Robert Altman's shaggy dog meditation on celebrity and how it befuddles its victims. The ending is flawed, but Paul Newman (as the title showman) and a fine supporting cast make the journey to it highly rewarding...
...Reagan's highly emotional victory celebration in Los Angeles. Said Fischer: "Neither of the other candidates I covered-Ford and Carter-has Reagan's star quality. The President can impress crowds with his office. Carter can hold an audience, particularly a black audience, spellbound. But as a showman, Reagan is unparalleled...
...watched by an estimated 120 million Americans weekly, Lear is the most successful entrepreneur in the history of the medium. However, he considers himself "a writer, first and foremost," and is the most trenchant, uninhibited and influential of the TV breed. Not since Disney has a single showman invaded the screen and the national imagination with such a collection of memorable characters. Indeed, perhaps no American entertainer has created so raucous or raunchy a crew as Archie and Edith, Maude and Walter, J.J., the Jeffersons, Sanford and son-and this season's most improbable heroine, Mary Hartman. Next season...
Experienced Showman...
Haber cooly ignored the passersby who gathered about to watch. Spectators do not disturb Stu Haber, for he is more than a techanical virtuoso; he is an experienced showman...