Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trend it represents has some heft to it. There are more gay-theme independent films than ever--"an explosion hitting the marketplace," says Marcus Hu, co-president of Strand Releasing. And they aim to appeal to viewers of all sexual orientations. Gays have come out of the celluloid closet and into the movie mainstream...
...have not spoken with one voice of late. Last month, while Junior was denying that his father was distressed over his decision to sell the company's 25% stake in DuPont in order to buy into Hollywood, Senior suggested in an interview with W magazine that trading nylon for celluloid was a terrible idea. His chagrin is understandable: the DuPont stock, worth $8.8 billion when Seagram sold it in 1995 to pay for its $5.7 billion purchase of Universal, has soared about $9 billion in value. Seagram's stock lags the market, in part because of doubts about Universal, which...
...alienation flics. Bully, too, for the ArtsFirst Film festivals-- look for an Asian Film grouping and the usual crowd-pleasing student films (who can forget the trip though Widener, or the reminiscences about Star Wars). Of course, film societies would give rise to more of these lovely, day-long, celluloid organisms, but Harvard hasn't seen a healthy film soc community since the days of helping out a friend's rough first time with PCP or protesting for more extensive breakfast meal plans ( read: the '70s). something more to spend those new UC funds...
...into the Kendall Square Theater prepared to criticize or applaud the movie's school and our cities. The audience was a tough crowd; the seat were filled with MIT professors and students and a smattering of Harvard folk, all anxious to see how their academic worlds would appear on celluloid...
...merchandising days at Penthouse, Steel learned to recognize a hot product, whether it was a phallic amaryllis plant, Gucci-labeled toilet paper (her own invention) or, later at Paramount, a movie like Flashdance or Top Gun. She was fired while giving birth to her daughter, but rebounded in true celluloid style, becoming the first woman to head a major studio: Columbia Pictures...