Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magic show Spellbound, a permanent edition of The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular and Splash II: The Voyage of a Lifetime! "In Las Vegas," says producer Jeff (Splash) Kutash, "it's always one-upmanship." For now Broadway is ancient history; Vegas is the musical theater of the coming millennium...
...want excitement? It begins and ends with Dennis Connor. Remember him? He was the one who LOST The Cup for the first time in a millennium to the Australians, was labeled a washup, then won The Cup back...
Millennialism produces intriguing impulses in a culture. Around the year 1000, European manuscript artists and poets limned their visions of the Apocalypse. Today's equally important purveyors of world culture--American television producers--are approaching the next millennium with less dismal thoughts. They are offering an onslaught of science-fiction series replete with brilliant techno-fetishists, emoting robots and impassioned parapsychologists...
...investors lining up? Because of the team's past. Because of the future it might hold: that DreamWorks will be the prototype plugged-in multimedia company of the new millennium. And because the exuberance of Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen is infectious. It suggests that there is still some Hollywood romance in the youthful determination of three middle-aged men to act like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the old MGM musicals, shouting, "Hey, guys, let's put the show on right here...
...there has to be someone who knows something. If not, why aren't we in cellular phones like all the other sensible people? This year the popular betting is that there are three such someones, that their names are Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen, and that what passes for a millennium--or, anyway, a damned good special-effects version of it--may be at hand...