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...upfront whether a show will be good (though it's easier to tell a real stinker), but Fox's set is at least more original-sounding than most other networks' (and they look much better than its horrible crop this season, "Wanda at Large" excepted). "A Minute with Stan Hooper" stars Norm MacDonald - as a New York TV personality who moves to small-town Wisconsin to produce a show and finds the locals are less simple than he expects. "Luis" stars character actor Luis Guzman ("Boogie Nights") as the owner of an East Harlem donut shop; prime-time could...
...Disney Channel, two of cable's major revenue and talent streams. But he and others are convinced that the stars--and, more important, their fans--can meet in the movie theaters. "Those are people who are likely to leave their house and go and buy tickets," says Stan Rogow, who produced the Lizzie McGuire show and movie. "And they can't travel alone, so they bring a parent. The tween audience has developed from barely a concept three years ago to a group that delivers in ratings and box office." Muniz's Big Fat Liar last year grossed nearly...
Despite the dangers, the place has an air of levity about it. There’s almost always music playing, and on the weekend, according to Farkas, “It’s like a party in here.” Instead of regular ear plugs, Stan has stocked the shop with “Spark Plugs” colorful tie-dyed alternatives to the boring white ones. In short, “It’s good time,” says Scott Sanders, who is making a steam engine. Stan explains his enthusiasm. “There?...
...DIED. STAN BRAKHAGE, 70, experimental filmmaker; of cancer; in Victoria, Canada. By linking disparate images without narrative and by using the film surface to scratch, color, write on and paste collages onto, Brakhage aimed to provide a free-associative poetry on film. His 1964 film Dog Star Man was listed by the Library of Congress among the most important films ever made...
...house and puts on a minister's outfit, turning himself into a successful "spiritualist." Soon he meets a wealthy industrialist who's "overboard on the spook dodge. He's living on dream street," and willing shell out big bucks to square his conscience with a dead girl. But Stan's downfall comes when he meets Lilith, a comely shrink who's too smart for his cons. Taking him as a lover, she makes him paint her toenails and tortures him with psychobabble. Because it's a "goddamn stinking slaughterhouse of a world," Stan eventually finds himself hooked on hooch, hitching...