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There were times when the opening-night production, designed and directed in monumental style by Pier Luigi Pizzi, flirted dangerously with catastrophe. At one point, for example, materials fell from the overhead flies, causing the corpse of Hector to bring one hand protectively to his face. But the magnitude of the evening's triumph should not be underestimated. At a single stroke, it has made the reputation of Chung, up until now probably best known as the younger brother of violinist Kyung-Wha Chung. Against all odds, he assembled a cast whose only prominent members were sopranos Grace Bumbry (Cassandra...
...signals, the A/V receiver is the link that allows consumers to play their new stereo TV sets through the speakers and amplifiers of their hi-fi systems. Receivers equipped with Dolby Surround sound can re-create the full atmospherics of the movie theater, from the scream of jets passing overhead to the seat-shaking rumble of helicopter gunships. To ensure that what the actors say actually comes out of their mouths, models with the Dolby Pro Logic feature isolate dialogue and pipe it to a speaker mounted directly below the TV screen...
...find the profit. Joked Buchwald: "We suspect it's in Gloria Swanson's dressing room." Of the $300 million gross, half was kept by theaters showing the film. The rest went for shooting the picture (one cost estimate: $40 million), distribution fees charged by Paramount ($50 million), studio overhead ($5 million), film prints and promotion ($15 million), Murphy's salary ($8 million) and other expenses...
...helicopters come at night and shoot projectiles that sound like trains passing overhead ending with explosions," he says, "But we continue to teach...
...This is exciting," he tells his architect, surveying the half-finished plaza he has conceived as the social center of the new community he is building. "Have you done the guardhouse? Let's go see the guardhouse." Singh is minutely attentive to aesthetics, even with interest costs and overhead running $30,000 a day. The guardhouse, it turns out, is coming along nicely, except for some ugly screens, which Singh promptly removes from the muntined French doors. He peers at a Government facility up the road: "Now we gotta get the Navy to straighten out the Stalag 13 look there...