Bolen identifies the let's-put-on-a-show approach, in which the Oscar team seems willing to try pretty much anything, as the company's strength.
His jaunty little number, "Springtime for Hitler, " was the title tune from the show-within-a-show that Brooks created for his musical, The Producers.
At the time of that meeting, Comdex was considering creating a show-within-a-show at CES, perhaps taking over the Venetian and trying to recruit 3, 000 attendees.
In some cases, their jobs are carried over from past show-within-a-show Muppet joints, while other characters have been shunted off to an "Up Late" writers' room populated by motley talking vermin and crustaceans.
After gathering all that information together they create a slide-show, a write-up, a stock template and quick elevator pitch of the company.
As a side-show, a tone-deaf trade association of struggling European telephone companies known as ETNO put on a full-court press to dupe developing nations into endorsing a plan that would subsidize failing local telcos, many of them state-owned, by taxing the most popular Internet content providers, including YouTube, Facebook, and Yahoo!
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We also were able to go to a fashion--a hair show--excuse me--in London, and here in America, we went to salons in Washington, DC, and also in New York City, and we asked friends to recommend women to us which we thought would give us a great story and also had a unique hairstyle.
With this, it's the first project I've gotten to develop since I became a writer and under contract with CBS. They asked for me to look to do a very CBS show--a show that could survive and succeed on their landscape.
In addition to a pre-show concert and online advertising, a fleet of Chevy's E85 ethanol-compatible SUVs will transport talent to the show.
In most people's lives, most of the time, Washington is indeed a side-show, and even an economic downturn or a foreign-policy crisis would give it only a temporary importance.
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"If you founded a hedge fund, when you sold it you were treated worse than if you owned a peep-show business, " said John Raffaelli, a Democratic fund-raiser and lobbyist for the hedge-fund industry.
Though Fox's "Glee, " a music-laced show about a high-school glee club, remains in the top 20 for viewers between the ages of 18 and 49, it has seen its rating drop 25% in that group so far this TV season compared with a year earlier, according to Nielsen data provided by Fox. (Fox, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.) This could signal a challenge for "Smash, " Mr. Adgate says.
The just-unveiled Media Player 7 handles most audio and video formats, is an MP3 jukebox for recording, organizing and playing music, and has enough advanced features to take on the competition - including a 10-band equalizer, a psychedelic light-show that pulses in time to the music, and appearance-changing "skins" that turn the gray box into things like the big green head pictured.
That gave us money up front, and it also made it easier for me to do serious work, because people were buying a five-show package, and they trusted me to give them a well-chosen, wide-ranging package each year.
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Of course, comes Monday the 17th, go figure, 29-year-old Dave pulls a no-show.
It's that of a gutsy, up-by-her-bootstraps heroine--daughter of a Las Vegas showgirl and a show-promoter father who died when Dunn was 12.
As a plucky quiz-show contestant -- a slumdog underdog -- Jamal keeps giving correct answers to obscure questions and winning more rupees.
With eight series between them (both Berlanti and Rhimes have more than one), the cadre of ABC show-runners--someone that serves as both a writer and executive producer on a show--rounded out the most recent broadcast season with average audiences between 7.2 million and 17.3 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.
"I think the Democratic base -- the danger is it becomes a no-show in 2010, " Andrews said.
Randy Moss, the self-described best receiver in history, was practically a no-show.
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Glenn Beck, a talk-show host, foments panic and then urges listeners to buy gold from a company he endorses.
But his first attempt at televised showmanship was crude, to say the least -- a cable-access show in Norwalk, Conn.
But don't forget to cancel the reservation, because Southwest now charges a no-show fee.
Rush, meanwhile, is making waves this summer with a 50-show tour at venues big and small.
Let me tell you, the first few hours of a game-show taping are super fun.
Paul McCartney was a no-show to pick up his Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album.
Roland S. Martin is a CNN contributor and a talk-show host for WVON-AM in Chicago.
Editor's note: Roland S. Martin is a CNN contributor and a talk-show host for WVON-AM in Chicago.
Google was a no-show at the spring CTIA Wireless show where several high-profile Android handsets were launched.
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