Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe a mass pilgrimage to Lynah would be in order. I was commentating on Saturday's game for WHRB, and our engineer back in the studio--sophomore Kimi Domoto-Reilly--commented, "Man, it sounds really loud in there...
...relatively novel sensation for the New York City radio personality whose morning show is now heard in 35 markets around the country and who is probably most famous for--well, it's hard to pick just one thing: for getting female listeners to bare their breasts in his studio, for saying Rodney King deserved his beating and Magic Johnson his HIV virus, for obsessing about the smallness of his penis, for having racked up a record $1.7 million fine from the FCC for uttering words like penis on air in an "indecent" context...
...when Nobuyuki Idei leapfrogged a dozen more senior executives to become the company's president. As the world's trailblazer in entertainment electronics, Sony invaded Hollywood in 1989 by buying Columbia and TriStar Pictures; in November 1994 the corporation took a $3.2 billion write-off for five years of studio mismanagement. Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop the digital videodisc, expected to replace the videocassette recorder and the compact...
...Idei, 59, is turning Sony back into a titan. In recent months, the company has unveiled such digital products as video and still cameras, mobile phones and a video Walkman. In March it will sell its own dvd player, to be followed by a multimedia home computer. Despite its studio setbacks, Sony will put more weight on entertainment. "Our movie business will be very important for the future of Sony," Idei says. "We will integrate electronics and entertainment into one and create a company like Warner Bros. or Disney...
...what about the movies that did get big nominations? The publicist says he wasn't surprised: "Those are the movies people are talking about." The former studio head doesn't disagree, but he is not pleased: "These pictures are a sad commentary on the state of our business. Years ago, not one of them would have been nominated for Best Picture. Look at the list from 1974. The Godfather, Part II. Chinatown. Lenny. The Conversation. And ... what was the fifth one? I can't remember." A quick trip to the reference shelf reveals the answer: The Towering Inferno, arguably...