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...beset by movie piracy, the brain drain and the overall artistic glums, only 5% of all films released last year earned a profit. Wai and To want to be in that 5%. So they'll make, as well as they can, anything they think the audience wants. What to artier directors would be a confession is to To a boast: "I change with the audience. I have to get them into the theaters?that's my sole aim." He gets them in, and he makes them pay. That's why the Hong Kong film industry pronounces To as in "dough...
Tuesday nights the play list tends to be more melodic but punchy, while Wednesdays are also somewhat more accessible to non-hard-core fans. Thursday nights are characterized as noisier and artier, while on Fridays, Douglas DeMay '94 plays gut-level, hard-core, emotional stuff to a very loyal audience. On Saturday night the Record Hospital becomes "Rhythm 95," and the music changes to a combination of rap, hip hop, dance hall and funk. Sunday nights the station returns to Record Hospital and plays songs that are more closely tied to the punk movement of the late 1970s...
...heralded crop of low-budget films from tyro directors, the outlaw is in. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs: gangsters pull a heist, then engage in a long therapy session of bitchery and carnage. Tom Kalin's Swoon: those gay cutups of the '20s, Leopold and Loeb, are back, artier and hornier than ever. Stacy Cochran's My New Gun: doctor gives his restless wife a handgun; audience waits for it to go off. Add two other, more seasoned directors of outlaw movies -- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and Hal Hartley (Simple Men) -- and you have a tough new movie generation...
...face like a bloodhound that has just eaten an escaped convict, an image that was once permitted on movie screens only if the dog died in the end. But movies are artier than ever, and the rough features of Anthony Quinn, which have long hidden a consummately skillful actor, are in total demand. He is a leading man now, in films and on Broadway too. Rich and nearly 50, he talks like a teen-aged kid who has just been told he made 700 on his college boards...
Despite its glittering cast and artier-than-thou approach, the show now and again came slowly out of the tube. Not without lively spots (notably a duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that...