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Despite his description of the movie industry as a chaotic battle of competing inter cuts surrounded by antiquated laws, arbitrary labor unions, and general corruption, Harvey is clearly a happy showman...
Flaherty has always had his detractors. Diehard documentarists call him a showman who manipulated reality. Commercial moviemakers fault him as a glorified shutterbug too lazy or too dumb to write a script. But what his critics fail to see is that Flaherty was not so much a director as a seer. His films are the visions of the original unity of God, nature, man. They confront modern man with his primordial being. They say in fundamental images what Blake said in fundamental words: "Everything that is, is holy...
...daily since 1944; following a heart attack; in Washington. Sometimes sharp, more often corny, Dixon took aim at "the guy in the silk hat," up to and including the President of the U.S., which led him to describe 1965 as "the year of incision" and L.B.J. as "the abdominal showman...
Businessman-Showman...
Harold Smith Prince, 37, has struck his bonanza in one of the roughest, toughest, least tractable businesses: the Broadway theater. A combination businessman-showman, he has produced or co-produced ten hit musicals- including Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello! and Fiddler On The Roof -that have earned $5,300,000 and brought him a personal worth of just over $1,000,000. Hal Prince has precisely the right balance of creativity, charm and salesmanship that makes a successful producer. "It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class," he says...