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DIED. TOMOYUKI TANAKA, 86, Godzilla godfather; in Tokyo. He was head of Toho Films in 1956 when, with director Ishiro Honda, he dreamed up the city-stomping monster. The toothy marauder, initially created to express horror at the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, starred in 22 films,a Japanese Jurassic Park unto himself...
NOVELL HIRES A GEEK GODZILLA...
...said Redux might inspire vivid dreams, and was he ever right! As I was sleeping, I saw myself tooling around in a Volkswagen Beetle. Suddenly it jerked into reverse. I looked back, and there was Godzilla lifting the car and violently chomping away. It took a walk around the house and another glass of juice to shake the jitters...
...Like Godzilla rampaging through Tokyo, the gigantic cost of big-event pictures has shaken the old studio dynamic in which the blockbusters covered the tabs of smaller flops. While a film like Independence Day generates a multimillion-dollar profit, the big pictures often don't clear enough anymore to make other problems disappear. That means studios will have to scrutinize smaller films more carefully. There are no easy answers, says Chernin, and no radical solutions available. The bottom line, says Universal's Meyer: "You have to choose well and be lucky...
...this profuse, energetic, sometimes brilliant and sometimes very corny artist. Kienholz didn't believe in refinement. What he believed in was a combination of technical know-how, moral anger and all-American barbaric yawp. Moving through the show is like being alternately slugged and hectored by a redneck Godzilla with strong libertarian-anarchist convictions. His truck used to have ED KIENHOLZ--EXPERT painted on the door. You might not trust Roy Lichtenstein to frame a shed or Jasper Johns to re-weld a railing, but Kienholz was doing that stuff since childhood. He was brought up on a farm...