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...Most Lavish Home-Shopping Spree The QVC network's $10.5 billion bid to buy Paramount Communications. Paramount had hoped to merge with TV conglomerate Viacom. But QVC's Barry Diller, who can build grudges into empires, vowed to take over his old studio by wooing or warring. The courts, and finally Paramount's board, agreed to give him the chance...
...World's Most Powerful Man Oh, maybe it's the President of the U.S., but even Bill Clinton takes orders from supermogul Michael Ovitz, whose Creative Artists Agency represents the major Hollywood talent, creates new Coke ads, advises studio chiefs -- and arranges the guest list for Clinton's star-struck visits to Hollywood...
...miracle that these four geniuses found one another, and it's a miracle they didn't then kill each other. But The Beatles isn't all dirt. Spitz brings readers inside the studio, where the Beatles, none of whom could read music, generated a staggering catalog of innovations, including the first use of feedback. He also pries open the songwriting dyad of McCartney and Lennon, who couldn't seem to stop writing perfect pop songs even when they couldn't stand each other. Anything was raw material: a cornflakes jingle (Good Morning, Good Morning), a snippet of Shakespeare...
...important classes. It’s simply that the idea of VES as a concentration, a major at Harvard University on par with astrophysics, engineering, English, or biochemical sciences, is baffling. Let me explain why.To become a VES concentrator, your requirements are essentially to take a bunch of studio courses and perhaps one or two historical or theory courses. What exactly is a typical VES course? Well, let me point out a couple. VES 10: Drawing. VES 56r: Stop-Motion Puppet Animation. VES 120r: Wallpaper and Grids. Yes…wallpaper and grids. The first time Harvard has offered...
...enchanted” him. He agreed that studying under Soltan had been a unique experience.“When [professors] are people you care about and revere, you are affected by them for your whole life,” he said. “The design studio is hand-to-hand combat basically. You got to know him very quickly...he was a great, big, lanky Polish bird, flapping and demonstrative.”In 2002, Soltan was awarded the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, which is given annually by the American Institute of Architects and the Association...