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Entertainment is an activity designed to give people pleasure or relaxation. An audience may participate in the entertainment passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games. The playing of sports and reading of literature are usually included in entertainment, but these are often called recreation, because they involve some active participation beyond mere leisure The industry that provides entertainment is called the entertainment industry. Animation provides moving... full article at wikipedia

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Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.		Unknown
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.	Orson Welles
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.	Kin Hubbard
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.	John Berger
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.	Walt Disney
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.	Samuel Johnson
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.	Erica Jong
The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!	Lenny Bruce
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