Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once upon a time, a 153-lb. chemistry teacher named Julius Kelp wanted to grow big and strong, or anyway be smooth and cool--sort of like Frank Sinatra on a bad ego day--and in his lab he concocted a formula that permitted him to realize that dubious dream. Thus was The Nutty Professor, central work in the Jerry Lewis oeuvre, born...
After a vaguely shaky beginning (come on, "The Net"?) Harvard seems to have gotten the formula right, for now--three excellent movies are being presented this weekend and next week, free with a Harvard Summer School ID. And what could be better than a cool, dark movie to help that Fourth of July sunburn heal...
Hollywood has relied on formula for years, but do Paramount (Mission: Impossible) and Warner Brothers (Eraser) actually have the same rewrite department...
...voice of the hero Quasimodo, Tom Hulce ("Amadeus," Broadway's "A Few Good Men"), brings to his part the sensitivity and youthful enthusiasm that are essential to the Disney hero formula...
...would a hunky Hollywood star want to promote un-Hollywood films? "I've never been at ease with formula," says Redford, 58. "And around 1980 films were getting more formulaic, more like cartoons. Diversity was in danger. Helping independent film was a way to keep the industry broad." So in 1981 he created the Sundance Institute. It was host to powwows with indie and industry heavyweights, gave grants to some films and in February launched a Sundance cable channel. The institute has even gone global, inviting foreign talent to Utah...