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...Steven Bochco, after creating the hit series L.A. Law but before creating the hit series NYPD Blue, created the very expensive flop series Cop Rock, a weekly musical about police. "It was the most fun I've ever had in television," says Bochco, whose father was a Broadway pit musician. The audience regarded Cop Rock as a curious taste not worth acquiring -- "I think people sitting at home alone," Bochco figures now, "were embarrassed" -- and ABC canceled it quickly. James Brooks, the director of Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News, finished shooting his movie musical I'll Do Anything last...
...that Restic has a history to tell is like saying that Elvis was a rock musician, Ernest Hemingway was a novelist and Marilyn Monroe was a woman. Framed by the three formative events of his generation--The Great Depression, World War II and post-war prosperity--the myriads of interesting details in Restic's life make it prime movie material...
Wilson, avant-garde theater person that he is, has done some pretty odd work himself. And Waits, respected musician that he is, has over the years branched out into acting (the lunatic in Bram Stoker's "Dracula," Lily Tomlin's husband in "Short Cuts," and lots of roles in assorted Jim Jarmusch movies) and soundtracking (again with Jarmusch, most recently composing the music for "Night On Earth"), but he has never attempted anything on this scale. So, whatta we got...Tom Waits collaborating with Wilson and writing music for a German orchestra...throw in William S. Burroughs singing...
...judges were asked to evaluate, on a scale of one to 15, the performance of musician, mathematician or a mile runner, they would not be told to omit the numbers 1, 5, 9 and 13. Not only would such an omission be odd, but it would divide what should be a natural continuum of performance into artificial categories...
Robert is a musician aspiring toward a career in record producing. Even without his guitar and bass, he taps out silent harmonies on the counter tops and register keys. He sleeps a lot during the day to make up for his nocturnal nine-to-five shifts...