Streetwise Opera is an award-winning enterprise whose performers are all formerly homeless.
This is unusual for literary festivals, whose performers are generally pale and malnourished.
Maatouk founded the Christmas choral festival Beirut Chants, whose performers are 60% Lebanese.
The Tarriers, swept along by the calypso tide, appeared in the film "Calypso Heat Wave," whose performers included Maya Angelou.
Mr. Whitman adopted the stage name Slim and began to appear on the radio show "Louisiana Hayride," whose performers also included Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
(But Lisa Cholodenko, two of whose performers from "The Kids Are All Right," Annette Bening and Mark Ruffalo, were also nominated, has a right to complain).
Now, there are several well-established and explicitly feminist porn production companies, and quite a few start-ups (whose performers and producers feature strongly in the book).
More daring in concept were the masks used in ritual dances, whose performers became temporarily possessed by the spirit their masks personified.
Mr. Reid, 43, a co-founder of LaFace Records and a musician himself, replaces Clive Davis, 67, whose performers had waged an uncommonly public lobbying campaign to support him.
Rian Johnson's globe-trotting caper comedy "The Brothers Bloom" is the movie equivalent of an elaborate juggling act whose performers keep dozens of pins wheeling in the air.
This mixing of show business genres is characteristic of music hall, whose performers mocked authority, upper-class snobbery and the way a hint of sex could turn grown men into smirking children.
