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...Johnson knows whence his design concept flowed. "It had to be an idea from God," he says. To God the Creator, then, add God the Packager: Johnson has brought out Celebration Cup, the world's first prefab Communion...
Grunge was another game whose time was up. No need to buy something new when the whole point was to look used. Inside-out seams, stitched-in wrinkles and prefab holes were a good enough joke for a few months, especially when worn by a beautiful youngster. But, as is often the case, fashion pushed too far; and by last year, when Kawakubo's Comme des Garcons was showing black-and-white prison stripes, concentration-camp survivors were rightly protesting...
...rate tunes by the likes of Toni Childs, Marianne Faithfull and Glenn Frey, released its sound track even before the movie hit the theaters. This is good for the movie and good for business, but it makes rock part of a formula. When great rock tunes show up as prefab nostalgia on a movie of the week, or when they're used on TV to shill everything from brew to sneakers, the music's devalued. Its history and resonance are depreciated, embalmed in commerce...
Critics say the agency's clout has become excessive. Says a top studio executive: "CAA packages are a prefab, take-it-or-leave-it way of making movies. Some pictures get made that maybe shouldn't be made." Ovitz has had his share of feuds, most notably with David Puttnam, who lost his job as chairman of Columbia Pictures last year after alienating much of the Hollywood establishment. Insiders say the abrasive Puttnam's most expensive gaffe may have been his brusque treatment of Ovitz and CAA client Bill Murray. Recalling a spat with Ovitz, agent Bernie Brillstein explains...
Director Jennifer Harris chose a crude set for the play that appropriately looks as prefab as the houses that the play's characters inhabit--and the characters themselves...