Word: smartly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweat's on the record, and the century's greatest pop singer at last has a book that fits his personality and takes full measure of his stature," says TIME's Jay Cocks. "Blithe, respectful, snappy and smart, Will Friedwald catches the creative fire of the singer, the implacable perfectionism that made his music seem both effortless and passionate and that ensured it would not just endure but remain definitive." The writer spoke with dozens of Sinatra sidemen, contemporaries (like Jo Stafford and Tony Bennett) and songwriters. "But this book is in no sense an authorized religious journey," Cocks says...
Turner and Malone are certainly formidable adversaries when they choose to be. But maybe this time Levin can harness the killers as his own hired guns. "Turner and Levin are smart enough to know they need each other," says analyst Logsdon. If Michael Ovitz, the ultrapowerful chief of CAA, could go to work for Disney's Michael Eisner, then surely Ted Turner could take a seat on Gerald Levin's TW board as a buccaneer emeritus, and do his vision thing. "Ted isn't someone who comes in the office every day and sits at his desk," says...
Well, they do. The venerable art of movie scoring may have been obscured of late by a new kind of sound track--the so-called compilation score, cobbled-together collections of rock songs (some containing new songs, others merely groups of oldies). They're a smart example of marketing synergy: the movie helps sell the album; the album helps sell the movie. And it's working: the sound tracks for Batman Forever (with a hit single by U2) and Dangerous Minds (with one by rapper Coolio) have been among the summer's best sellers...
...sharper editing eye than some feel he demonstrated last season. "I saw pretty good sketches die on the way to the screen," notes Michael McKean, another departing cast member. "If a sketch asked a lot of an audience, they didn't want it. By and large, you had one smart piece within the 90 minutes." Michaels will need to come up with a lot more of those next season if Saturday Night is to live again...
...French Kiss), Arquette can do little but whine and pine in an impossible role. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura, who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician. She hardly seems smart enough to be a patient...