Encouraging signs of the rehabilitation of Lou Pearlman, the impresario responsible for the success of the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync, who was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for constructing a pyramid investment scheme of historically unprecedented proportions, defrauding various individuals and banks out of close to half a billion dollars. (Strangely, he escaped any additional years behind bars as punishment for being responsible for the success of the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync.)
A Florida television station reports that already, within weeks of his incarceration, Pearlman - who, Lost in Showbiz notes irrelevantly, is Art Garfunkel's first cousin - has found work managing an up-and-coming Orlando rock band named Biteboy.
"He's sold more CDs and brought more people to concerts than anybody in the history of the world," says Biteboy's manager. "I don't want to see that knowledge lost. I want it. They want it."
Well, it beats sewing mailbags, although if the result is the next Backstreet Boys, perhaps not.
