The cultural leaders were the mass entertainers – singers, actors, comedians, and the anchors of game shows and reality TV.
But in the past decade or so, the decline has become a meteoric plummet, to the extent that drag is now the last resort of the lowest-aiming multiplex mass-market entertainer.
The "liberry," as the immigrants called it, functioned as the great educator and entertainer for the masses who made the clamorous streets their first American home.
An entertainer for the masses, he was talented, sure, but where would he have been without the cold war and the boyish, squeaky-clean looks and his genius impresario, Sol Hurok?
Sify's critic stated that Murugadoss "has made a complete entertainer that blends with Vijay's mass image, thanks to his racy script", calling it a "perfect Diwali entertainer".
An entertainer should, after all, be entertaining.
Some entertainers who give financial advice via the mass media, like Dave Ramsey, bash on all annuities for all reasons.
He describes himself as a music entertainer, a world changer and social entrepreneur with the desire to touch the masses and change lives through his music.
The first of Guthrie's three wives, Mary, lamented his politicization as "his downfall as an entertainer," and she had a point: the more he focussed on rousing the masses, the less he pleased the crowd.
