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...years later, Hughes produced the best and most brutal of the early gangster dramas, Scarface. After a decade-long vacation from films, he made The Outlaw, a notorious Western whose main point of interest was Jane Russell's bosom. By the mid-1950s, he had run a major movie studio, RKO, into the ground. Then he vanished into eccentricity...
King continued to covet the project even after film studio Sony acquired it. Then, in 1998, he was hit by a car in rural Maine and confined for months in--that's right--a hospital. Inspired and determined, he made a deal with Sony, secured a series with ABC and swiftly banged out most of Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital...
...genres. Says Thompson: "[The Rolling Stones'] Exile on Main St. is my blueprint." The plan is to invite other musicians--John Mayer, Macy Gray and Nas are on the wish list--to drop by for jam sessions out of which, they trust, songs will emerge. The Roots' Philadelphia studio has even been tricked out with a whole bunch of amenities so the band can play host to longer, later jam sessions. "We definitely want a darker, murkier texture," says Thompson. We'll know next year how well it works out. --By Christopher John Farley
...that last bit is a fib, concocted for Ball's press biography by publicists for RKO, the studio she was under contract to in the late 1930s. They made it up because they--and the rest of Hollywood, for some two decades--had no idea how to best promote or cast the woman who in mid-life would become perhaps the most popular actress of the 20th century. Ball didn't easily fit any of the standard movie-star niches. The saucy girl from Jamestown, N.Y., was pretty (a former model) but not va-va-voom sexy; she was down...
...appeasement, of course, is not what he does. You can tell that again from the Dirty house, a converted furniture factory that he turned into a residence and studio for Tim Noble and Sue Webster, artists whose most notorious early work was called Dirty White Trash (with Gulls), an installation that consisted of six months' worth of their household garbage. A newly built glass-walled upper story holds the couple's living space. The high-ceilinged lower floor contains their office and two studios...