Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American industries. The man who created the Mac embodies, perhaps even more fully than Microsoft's Bill Gates, the personal-computer revolution. And a decade after he bought a fledgling digital-animation studio from George Lucas, Toy Story and A Bug's Life have brought Silicon Valley and Hollywood one huge step closer to connubial bliss. Last week, with Apple's luscious new iMacs unveiled and Toy Story 2 unspooling at an exclusive TIME preview, Jobs, after years spent pacing the sidelines, was suddenly at the top of both his games...
...result is a company that's swiftly emerging as a powerhouse--both in Hollywood and on Wall Street--and an executive whose life remains a perpetual juggling act. "I'm a good morning person," Jobs says, asked to describe a typical weekday. "I'll wake up sixish and work a little before the kids get up. Then we'll have a little food, finish up some homework and see them off to school. If I'm lucky I'll work at home for another hour, but oftentimes I'll have to come in. I usually get [to Apple] about nine...
...years, Disney owned animation, from Snow White to The Lion King. But when Toy Story 2 opens this Thanksgiving, upstart Pixar will seal its place as the new standard bearer of heart-warming stories for kids and parents. What's more, it's being done on computer and outside Hollywood...
...train may be harboring thoughts of man-anguish chaos certainly disturbs me. I think I may prefer an abstract Mr. Willis shooting down the entire world than this haunting - and scarily authentic - perception of my American yuppie. This new analysis of men, however, plucks an uneasy chord in evangelical Hollywood; that the average man might have a much blacker psyche than South Park suggests. Perhaps we women really should learn to share our Lifetime...
...everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means choosing between American Beauty-in which a quiet suburb of yuppies cracks under the vacuousness of their up-and-coming lifestyle-and Fight Club, where nameless corporate...