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Carter furnished a plane and pilot, and Rogers canceled his showbiz engagements to begin stumping all over Texas to raise money for needy farmers and the unemployed, Fairley wrote.
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Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
The Franchise won’t be getting any sequels: HBO has cancelled the showbiz satire after just one season, TVLine has confirmed.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 3 Jan. 2025
On the showbiz sections of certain UK newspaper websites, the churn of stories involving Walker, Kilner and Goodman — ideally all three in the same headline for SEO purposes — seems never-ending.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Thus there was no reason why all of Rose’s young people’s troupe, along with the strippers, could not have been made up entirely all-Black performers, even if some or all of the theater owners and powerbrokers were white, as was the reality in early 20th-Century American showbiz.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
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Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
The Franchise won’t be getting any sequels: HBO has cancelled the showbiz satire after just one season, TVLine has confirmed.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 3 Jan. 2025
On the showbiz sections of certain UK newspaper websites, the churn of stories involving Walker, Kilner and Goodman — ideally all three in the same headline for SEO purposes — seems never-ending.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
Thus there was no reason why all of Rose’s young people’s troupe, along with the strippers, could not have been made up entirely all-Black performers, even if some or all of the theater owners and powerbrokers were white, as was the reality in early 20th-Century American showbiz.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Showbiz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/showbiz. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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