A Forward for an autobiography
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FOREWORD
Show business is everything that you?ve always heard it to be?all the fluff, the fantasies, and even the hard falls into oblivion. I?ve been in the entertainment industry a long time, from Broadway and television to music and movies. I?ve worked in TV since 1975 and have spent the last 26 years with David Letterman. Through it all, I?ve watched talent come and go, the starlets and ?one-hit wonders.? I?ve witnessed something even more remarkable, however, something that isn?t usually discussed in the trade papers and tabloids because it?s too hard to pin down exactly when it happens, too difficult to paint in the garish colors the media uses to sell celebrity.
It?s almost impossible to put what I?m talking about into one neatly packaged phrase, but if I had to, I would call it the cycle of celebrity. And it goes something like this: there are many talented people in this world, but few make it to the top. The reason for this is that who?s ?in? and who?s ?out? depends in large part on public taste, and it?s no secret that the public is fickle. They like something and then they move on. So to become a celebrity and then maintain yourself as a star, you need to be talented, of course, but you also need the smarts to figure out how to market yourself in the milieu of what?s ?in.? And, you have to be willing to go the distance, all the time. Celebrity, especially lasting celebrity, depends on whether a person can capitalize on what?s working today and then continue to repackage themselves as public taste changes.
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