Word: debut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sundance Fever Comes To Cannes "Twister" may be grossing upwards of $40 million in its U.S. debut, but filmmakers at Cannes are following the Sundance example and cutting economical deals for small "classic" films at a fraction of the cost of the average big-budget Hollywood production. While Dustin Hoffman and his production company, Punch Productions, have announced a deal with the Australian production company Village Roadshow to finance and distribute small dramatic films for about $10 million apiece, action producer Joel Silver is teaming up with "Lethal Weapon" director Richard Donner to make low-budget action films...
...with three impressive neo-soul releases: seductive crooner Maxwell has an album just out called Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite; in early June singer-bassist Me'Shell NdegeOcello will come out with her second album, Peace Beyond Passion; and in July the wistfully named vocalist ambersunshower will release her debut CD, Walter T. Smith...
...group, whose music was dreamy and pretty on its debut album, has also toughened up its sound. On such standout songs as Forever Yellow Skies and The Rebels, singer Dolores O'Riordan howls and the guitars rage. Yet O'Riordan remains a terrific crafter of melodies, and a prettiness sparkles beneath the surface of her most raucous songs. The one problem is that the lyrics are sometimes a bit daft: I'm Still Remembering pays tribute to Kurt Cobain in one couplet and, in a loopy segue, lauds John F. Kennedy in the next. Perhaps O'Riordan should watch more...
Birdcage director Mike Nichols is trying a different perch: he made his British stage debut, performing in the Wallace Shawn- penned upper-crust satire The Designated Mourner. Critics gave a thumbs-down to the stream-of-consciousness chatter running through the play but praised the former Nichols-and-May star's "meticulous performance" as the cultivated cynic...
...show's star and choreographer is Savion Glover, already a seasoned Broadway performer at 22. He made his debut at 12 in Tap Dance Kid, and has since starred in Black and Blue and Jelly's Last Jam. Even granting this list of precocious credits, Glover's style is surprisingly mature. He will doubtless go through life being compared to Fred Astaire, but the link is authentic, not so much stylistically--Glover pounds his feet down, Astaire seemed poised for flight--as in the unique quality of each man's work. Just as it would be impossible to mistake...