Word: rios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's Why I'm Here marks James' debut as a full-fledged album producer. He does a fine job for the most part, and achieves a rich sound with few instruments. Exotic noises help make "Only a Dream in Rio"--a song about the return of Brazilian democracy--an exciting and colorful celebration. The jazzy trumpets, funky harmonica and upbeat tempo of "Limousine Driver" rival Kenny Loggins' "Footloose" sound...
...when 20th Century- Fox, which will supply some of the Fox network's programming, is losing its reputation as a flop mill. Under the ownership of Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, the studio churned out such clunkers as Rhinestone, which paired Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, and Blame It on Rio, which featured Michael Caine at the beach. But Murdoch has the good fortune of inheriting a shrewd studio boss, Diller, who joined Fox in October 1984 after heading Paramount, where he turned out a stream of hits that included Terms of Endearment and Flashdance. One early result of Diller...
...loss of Humphrey, as the nearby Rio Vista whale watchers have named him, would be a serious one. The humpback whale is an endangered species: only some 12,000 still exist, about 5% to 10% of the original population. "They used to be very good hunting," says Mark Ferrari, a whale photographer who has helped coordinate efforts to direct the whale back...
...plans to do so, whole categories of potential AIDS victims could be eliminated: hemophiliacs and others who receive blood transfusions. But the blood test is too expensive for many countries to carry out on a large scale. As a result, Brazil has forbidden the sale of all blood in Rio de Janeiro, and 20% of that city's blood banks have closed...
...criticism of his subject's eccentricities with an admiring portrait of the young Welles as a brilliant innovator on stage and radio. But, the author notes, even then there was "the megalomania that would soon consume him." And he holds to his view that when Welles flew off to Rio to film the carnival without finishing the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), when he flew off to Europe without finishing the editing of Macbeth (1948), when he wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on abandoned projects like Don Quixote, he feared that a completion would "have the finality...