Word: 80s
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...Cannon Group) that each laid claim to tiny parts of Spidey. "Spider-Man was plagued by bad deals, litigation and ownership that obviously wasn't capable of pulling off a movie of this magnitude. Thank God, because if they had done a Spider-Man movie in the mid-'80s, it would have been Cheesy-Man," says Arad...
...Duran Duran albums. Record companies dealt with this casual piracy by printing a skull and crossbones on the backs of tapes along with the claim that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. If that was the case, then it was the compact disc, which really took off in the mid-'80s, that brought the music industry back to life. Sure, you could hook your cassette recorder up to a CD player, but you couldn't copy that wonderful hiss-and-squeak-free digital fidelity--not yet. So everyone had to buy the Beatles and Beach Boys all over again. Result...
...ways of pleasing customers, however, the Big Five music companies (AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI, Sony and Vivendi Universal) are focusing on making it harder for consumers to get what they want. Although the connection between home copying and lost sales is as tenuous as it was in the '80s, the industry is pushing controversial anticopying technology into the marketplace--while entrepreneurs are assembling new business models for selling music in the digital...
...Breeders started out as a side project helmed by Kim Deal, bassist for the late-'80s college rock band the Pixies. If in 1992 you were a teenage girl who considered attending the Rhode Island School of Design as a less adventurous alternative to the expatriate life in Amsterdam, odds are pretty good that you were into their first album, "Pod." Nobody even pretended to establish a foothold on the lyrics (Example: "She's in a kitchen in Kentucky/ And she thinks she's Peter Pan") but the cover art made it reasonably clear the vegetable of the title referred...
Movie critics like to cuddle too; they want their favorite filmmakers to keep making favored films. And Allen has had skeins of terrific movies: Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days in the mid-'80s and the lesser, still pleasing run of Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite in the mid-'90s. So, as we near the mid-'00s, can we hope for another blossoming? It would be nice if the Woodman had one more return to top form--an invigorating dose of comic Viagra...