Word: mca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half professionals, half artists, neither side of them is ever entirely content. But Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch-born architect-prophet whom today's young architects most want to grow up to be, is smiling. He's thinking about the deep, vision-supporting pockets of his first American client, MCA-Universal, which has appointed him to oversee plans for most of a $3 billion expansion of Universal City in California. Why choose Koolhaas? "I think it's because of his grandfather," says Koolhaas of Edgar Bronfman Jr., grandson of the man who asked Mies van der Rohe to build New York...
Perhaps because of this, it has taken a long time for Koolhaas to hit America's consciousness, but the MCA commission, which is likely to include new offices and a redesign of the company's headquarters, caps an amazing 18 months for the beakish 51-year-old. In November 1994 his exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art drew big crowds and critical plaudits. He was photographed, celebrity-style, in his midnight blue Maserati by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His first book, Delirious New York, was rereleased and sold 28,000 copies...
...February, around the time negotiations for the MCA deal were winding up, Koolhaas released his second book, a stubby, curious tome called S,M,L,XL, after the four sizes that Koolhaas projects come in. A dense, not always coherent conglomeration of photos, plans, essays, fiction, cartoons and alphabetized ephemera, it's the ultimate coffee-table book for a generation raised on both MTV and Derrida...
...course, if Diller wanted to do things the easy or obvious way he could have; he reputedly turned down offers in the past year from both Edgar Bronfman Jr. (to run MCA Universal) and Michael Eisner (to join him as No. 2 man at Disney). "Barry has had these unbelievable silver trays offered to him, and he's always said no," says his best friend, designer Diane Von Furstenberg. Why no? "He's not a pig," she explains. "It's not about greed with him. It's ambition, it's vision, and that makes him different and makes...
...Ottawa-born Morissette got started early and took off quickly. At 10 she was performing on Nickelodeon's children's program You Can't Do That on Television; at 16 she had signed with MCA Records Canada and released her first album, Alanis. That CD and its 1992 follow-up Now Is the Time consisted mostly of Paula Abdul-esque melodies and merciless drum machines--the kind of soulless pop one might play during an aerobic workout on the Love Boat. During this pop-lite phase, Morissette also opened for pseudo-rapper Vanilla Ice in a 1991 concert and appeared...