Word: rko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifty years ago last week, Hollywood was the home of the avant garde. RKO released an experimental film made by a 25-year-old novice who didn't know the rules, didn't care when his studio elders said, "You can't do that!" Outrageous, iconoclastic, with warning shadows and baroque camera angles, Citizen Kane told future moviemakers that anything was possible. If you were Orson Welles...
...bones home theater costs $400 for the A/V box, $700 for a stereo TV, $800 or more for a laser videodisc player and upwards of $1,500 for a five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry to hide the equipment. A glossy...
...cable executives were skeptical that the new network would find a niche on an already crowded cable dial, especially since it would be filled largely with old movies. But TNT, seen today in 37.5 million cable homes, has drawn an enthusiastic cult audience for its treasure trove of MGM, RKO and pre-1950 Warner Bros. movies. Film lovers, who were outraged at Turner for colorizing classics originally released in glorious black-and-white, are now also praising him for unearthing the oeuvres of Warren William, Edna May Oliver and Alfred E. Green. "The demand for classic movies was unrecognized even...