impresario

• What are the odds that this holiday movie season we'd have not one but remakes in which a sleazy impresario, a leggy blond ingenue, and a lovestruck dweeb unite to turn a spectacle of 1930s savagery into an unexpected Broadway sensation? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
• He was one of those people who was good at many things and excellent at particular things - the former including his turns as impresario, historian, teacher (Gabriel Faure was one of his most devoted pupils), science writer and traveller; the latter embracing his career as a performer and composer. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
• Burnham turned himself into an impresario, assembling a team of architectural rivals, including Richard Morris Hunt, Charles F. McKim, and Louis Sullivan, and assigning them each a building. —  The New Yorker
• Wearing a huge can-you-believe-it grin is the collection's impresario, the 52-year-old Internet entrepreneur and founder of —  the-inbetween.com
• Achewood uses a variety of characters to comment on modern life and current events: there's Ray, the helicopter-owning record label impresario; Roast Beef, the depressive, cripplingly neurotic computer geek who happens to be Ray's best friend; Philippe, a five-year old otter who once ran for President, and far too many more to list. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

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