But the multimillionaire actor remained hugely popular among the masses and widely respected in showbiz circle. |
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If only our parents could have been perspicacious enough to see our talent and force us into showbiz. |
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The two seasoned showbiz songwriters have written all the songs on MiMi's first album, which is due for release in the autumn. |
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The TV presenters shunned the traditional showbiz wedding by marrying in a local church before driving off in a camper van. |
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Even then, he shunned the limelight, refusing interviews and steering clear of showbiz events. |
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Set in the showbiz circuit of the 1940s, it charmed critics with its corny jokes. |
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The cream of the British showbiz world is about to stage a concert for the troops, which will be beamed around the world by satellite. |
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To get away from the showbiz glitz, head down Palma's side streets and dinky squares for good shopping, eating and historic sights. |
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The youngster has become firmly established on the showbiz circuit in the past year. |
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All of us in the band are having to learn about this showbiz malarkey as we go along. |
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Most people want their showbiz heroes and heroines to be screwed-up, unpredictable and prone to artistic tantrums, don't they? |
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Despite his sometimes shabby behavior, he has nobility of spirit compared to the bigger-budget showbiz types who are his rivals. |
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Apparently, participating in unscheduled photo calls with unknowns isn't her idea of how people should behave in showbiz. |
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Some papers are now part of the showbiz industry and for many, celebrity rather than religion is now the opium of the people. |
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Popular and not so popular celebrities have been drafted in to add some showbiz glamour. |
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The island has long since been a firm favourite of A-list celebrities desperate to escape the glitz and glamour of their showbiz lives. |
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The question is, do I ditch my old friends and lifestyle in favour of glamour models and showbiz parties? |
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She has confessed she likes nothing more to wind down from her showbiz lifestyle by chilling out with her grandmother. |
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But you have to be in the know to have access to the best-kept secret in showbiz. |
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Though they share nothing in upbringing, they have already found that they have a workaday attitude to showbiz in common. |
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To understand showbiz you have to realise that there is a great snobbery, a pecking order if you like, and movies are at the top. |
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The new venture aims to find and polish the next generation of showbiz talent. |
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The foxy showbiz legend Basil Brush is back for more madness and mayhem and Cavegirl returns with more prehistoric comedy and adventure. |
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And she opens up to showbiz tonight about being grandma to Gwyneth Paltrow's baby daughter. |
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But first, there's a musical to put on that, for all its pedigree and malleability, remains very '70s and very showbiz. |
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This nonstop laugh riot is a truly neglected classic of cautionary showbiz schlock. |
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She has some years experience in showbiz, having trained as a classical ballet dancer and gone on to sing and dance in many musicals. |
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Brilliant mimic and able showbiz charmer though he is, Stewart is a newcomer to the straight acting game. |
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You can see the genuine affection there and it's not a showbiz couple thing. |
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We add an element of showbiz that probably comes from my experience of being in bands and having been around the block a few times. |
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But when so many showbiz biogs are all fluff and puff, his remarkable tale deserves a wider audience. |
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The 25-year old from Moss Side is making it big behind the camera in the showbiz capital of the world. |
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Second, I am delighted that the name has a wider resonance in the showbiz and literary world. |
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This is where desperate immigrants, former showbiz stars and ancient juvenile delinquents seek asylum. |
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But time is precious for these football and showbiz stars and business high-flyers. |
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At the very least it could be a way back into showbiz for Michael Barrymore. |
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The years roll by and each takes its toll bringing with it some well known names from the showbiz scene. |
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From Vegas, it was on to L.A. for friends, shopping and a few showbiz happenings. |
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So says Shawn Levy in his book on the Sinatra-led showbiz clan known as the Rat Pack. |
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He chats about an enduring showbiz career, and tells how the first song he ever wrote was his biggest hit. |
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Milind is not stuck with the showbiz world and is aware of the murky happenings in the society around. |
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Sometimes one yearns for the days when crime and showbiz were not as tightly twined as they are now. |
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Unavoidably, given the author's identity, large stretches of My Stroke of Luck stray into predictable showbiz memoir territory. |
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Have you been buying up every celeb magazine on the shelves this year and reading every column inch of showbiz gossip in the papers? |
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He was the hope of the family, especially of his father whose own showbiz yearnings had ended up in the debit column, but he was booed off stage again and again and again. |
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There is no need to expatiate here on the showbiz society and its cultural ramifications. |
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On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns. |
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I thought to myself that a long period on a coach trying to pass out with the aid of many tins of Stella and the least comfy seats in showbiz might result in some kip. |
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Featuring an ageing Las Vegas showgirl, brilliantly performed by Nadine Tyson, it mixed camp style and pathos with the glitz and energy of showbiz. |
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The former stand-up comedian has evolved into one of the most versatile entertainers in showbiz. |
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With Dark Matter, the choreographer and performer Kate MacIntosh brings philosophical and scientific questions to the stage with showbiz pizzazz. |
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It is not as if they court the showbiz lifestyle at the moment. |
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She's sassy, she's knows how to sing, and she has that old showbiz sassiness that a lot of kids don't really have these days. |
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The colourful and flamboyant solicitor, famous for his Cuban cigars, quick wit, and genial sense of devilment, attained folk hero status among the showbiz fraternity. |
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Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos. |
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Yet it's her showbiz background that accounts for much of her toughness. |
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Cyrus somehow escaped the showbiz trap of manufactured personality and preserved a genuineness that is very hard to fake. |
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Now Mummy and Charles are splitsville, as they say in showbiz, and soon more than the neighbors may be clucking about them. |
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Purely in terms of output and longevity, Michaels, 66, is the Old Faithful of showbiz. |
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Mr Bach's account is the racier, written with showbiz glee, titillating detail and an enumeration of lovers and liaisons which can prove wearing. |
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It has a quiet strength and integrity, not a lot of noisy showbiz pizazz. |
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This medium, probably considered one of the most old-fashioned, gamely withstands the attacks of the showbiz society. |
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That's the showbiz mantra, the scout's honour for those of us who tread the boards. |
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Wright studied drama at uni but made his name as the Mirror's showbiz editor. |
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He could be unbearably glib, but his patrician persona and acid tongue, his radiating sense of superiority, made for good showbiz. |
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Here is a fairy-tale showbiz story that's almost too corny to be true. |
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So as they say in showbiz speech, he's phoning it in tonight. |
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The lines between showbiz and politics keep getting blurrier and blurrier. |
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Gradually, however, Salvador began to slip out of the showbiz spotlight, his songs failing to capture the mood of the young generation. |
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McNab says the game has come to represent the acme of upmarket aspiration for the elite decision-makers of business, sports, finance, politics and showbiz. |
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If you have none of that promotion, none of that showbiz, none of that glitz, then there's no back end for future production. |
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Today the Jacksons are so deeply associated with the showbiz slickness of Southern California, it's easy to forget their hardscrabble Rust Belt roots. |
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For a showbiz child, he seems surprisingly at peace with his parents. |
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He was a loyal supporter when Labour were reckoned to be unelectable, when a party leader would have lost his deposit if he had tried to muster showbiz votes for the cause. |
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Still, the articles do contain that most evocative of showbiz reporting constructs. |
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After years in the showbiz wilderness, Lio thus managed to make a major comeback on the music front as well as in the theatre world. |
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It's the age of celebrities in Britain, where showbiz weddings, bad hair days and fashion faux pas have become weekly fodder for glossy magazines. |
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Françoise also began distancing herself from the hectic world of showbiz, only making rare media appearances to coincide with her album releases. |
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Successful sportspersons are right up there with the famous actors, pop stars and other showbiz celebrities, as the commercial icons of our time. |
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Finke, who regularly breaks showbiz news, is the master of hyperbole. |
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Over the program's 10-week run, audiences ranging from 1.5 million to 3 million tuned in to watch them work with top showbiz professionals and improve to the point where they were eventually chosen as the last two finalists. |
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Rather than just advertising, this sportswear company prefers the publicity that the great brotherhood of showbiz can bring on TV, in the papers and on the radio. |
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The shadow of Macaulay Culkin rests uneasily and the showbiz parent attracts bad press in a town where embarrassing mothers hog borrowed spotlight and spew inanities at the gawpers and stalkers. |
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I'm lucky I'm in a panel game that's probably the lowest maintenance in the history of showbiz. |
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Every other Wednesday for 40 years a bunch of legendary comedy writers and directors — whose career highlights alone would fill a showbiz encyclopedia — have been meeting for a prandial catch-up session. |
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At 1.2m followers, the Pope trails the Dalai Lama by 4.5m, but both followings are dwarfed by the hordes of people debating and deconstructing the musings of showbiz figures. |
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So Marvin had the old showbiz glamour in his life from the start. |
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It's not every day that a showbiz star builds a house like this and what is more, the premises are ideal for staging a specialist event focusing on this subject. |
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And Niki also warned that the razmataz of showbiz is not all glitz and glamour. |
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As it happens, I think Linklater may not get best director: this is likely to go to Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman, his outrageously enjoyable fantasia of menopausal showbiz anxiety. |
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The singer's behaviour at the Théâtre du Ranelagh provoked a storm of criticism from France's showbiz fraternity, but Fontaine shrugged off these comments and carried on with her career regardless. |
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The theatrical thing is really all about showbiz, about trying to bring the public out and getting people to know about the movie and things like that. |
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The N-Dubz star, 24, collaborates with the grumpiest man in showbiz on new single Rockstar, all about the ill-fated members of the 27 Club. |
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A shameless PR puff piece packed with showbiz crawlers lauding Gary's God-like brilliance. |
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I roll up a sleeve, dip an arm into the slimy feculence of the celeb memoir business and yank out the ghost-written, self-indulgent, self-aggrandising effluvia of a ghastly gang of cash-randy showbiz egotists. |
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She is still, I think, one of those unquestioned showbiz phenomena: an instantly identifiable voice and presence, a bold journeyer in realms of personality unknown to others. |
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Thankfully, my ambitions in this regards were not entirely transgressed, for today I bestraddle the twin worlds of art and showbiz, where a certain visual aesthetic is half the point. |
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There'll be tug-o-war, a yard of ale competition, clay pigeons and even showbiz 'turns' provided by locals. |
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But many other showbiz honours are a blast from the fairly remote past. |
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Singers and musicians have now come to accept this view as the 'gospel truth' and if I dare to question it and tell showbiz colleagues that I don't agree with them it's like I suddenly get a yellow star pinned on me. |
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Lynn Harrell's appealing way of reaching out to an audience has captured rapt listeners not only at the world's famed concert halls, but also at the Grammys, where showbiz glitterati marveled at his artistry. |
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Miles away from showbiz and media fashion, this poet-singer's work is unique, clamoured for by the young, the less young, the born-again young, of indeterminate age. |
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The word showbiz is a slightly pejorative diminutive of show-business, referring to the acting profession, but more specifically people concerned with variety artistes. |
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It is simply the best portrait of small-time showbiz hustlers ever made. |
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In 1998, Mr. Rykov started an e-zine with an English-language obscenity for a name, which was loaded with jokes about culture, showbiz and relationships. |
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Among the crowd of singers and musicians whose local fame I assumed was worldwide was a sylphlike figure, a nonsinger and nonmusician, who nonetheless seemed to be regarded quite highly in this small showbiz matrix. |
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Money-spinning showbiz has overtaken cutting-edge artistry. |
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Jeanette Winterson, Stephen Fry, Dawn French – showbiz is lousy with them. |
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And yet, even knowing that they are untrue, that it has once more fallen prey to the bait and bathos of the showbiz press, Lost in Showbiz finds the images conjured by that headline are impossible to eradicate from its brain. |
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Shirley Bassey's culture seemed to be that of international showbiz, and her natural skin tone not that far different from the permatan of a Sacha Distel or Cliff Richard. |
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Sometimes the critics love you and sometimes they hate you. That's showbiz. |
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Along with being uncommonly intelligent, well-read, slyly humorous, and full of fascinating showbiz stories, Robert is a supremely professional actor. |
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And if you can get laughs from brash American showbiz reporter dropping indiscreet clangers interviewing celebs, then why overegg things by evoking Ruby Waxisms? |
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So this is what I need to say to you, smattering of public figures and showbiz personalities, and it is said in the spirit of fatherliness and with love. |
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Will they have the right stuff to impress the shoutiest duo in showbiz? |
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