Word: coppolas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chums will have to keep working -- and praying -- to make their studio flourish. Huge investments in scripts, real estate and a large staff are always vulnerable to the fickleness of the marketplace. Such ambitious outfits as First Artists, Orion Pictures, the Ladd Company and Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios all came and, sooner or later, went under. With the iffy exception of TriStar, formed in 1982, no successful major studio has started from scratch since Disney in the 1920s...
...Stays in the Picture (Hyperion; 412 pages; $24.95) is an NC-17 tale of mob lawyers, studio reptiles, coke dealers, starlets, domineering directors and the fast-talking operator at the center of it all. Aside from taking a few swipes at Ryan O'Neal, Francis Ford Coppola and Sharon Stone, Evans mostly tells stories on himself, charting his rise, fall and struggle to rebound with a keen staccato style usually found in hard-boiled mysteries...
...EDITOR" Sofia Coppola...
...lured Francis Ford Coppola to TV. He will direct Top of the Ninth, a live drama about a major-league baseball player, to air in April...
Slightly older children are the audience for the four-minute musicals known as music videos. If Aladdin is a traditional book musical, most music videos are not even booklet musicals. VH1 has hired Francis Coppola to oversee a series of special, half-hour music videos directed by important younger filmmakers, and it seems axiomatic that if some new species of live-action long-form musical is to evolve, it will owe at least as much to R.E.M.'s video Everybody Hurts, say, as to Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis. A big problem with Newsies, admits Menken...