Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie was fine, but his share of the profits was not--so he is suing Columbia Pictures for more than $1.5 million. He claims he was supposed to get 25% of the gross profits after the movie earned $130 million, but that when Tootsie was sold to TV, the studio did some fancy financial footwork to avoid paying Hoffman...
This is curiously refreshing. So is the notion that a studio would lavish a huge budget on a movie whose basic business is consciously to satirize a genre that until recently tended to be low-rent and pretty much self-satirizing. Maybe this is an all too conspicuous waste of precious cinematic resources. But you have to admire everyone's chutzpah: the breadth of Burton's (and writer Jonathan Gems') movie references, which range from Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings...
...whole ordeal of making the film seems to have produced--dare we say it?--yet another Madonna, softer, more chastened. Or maybe just more calculated. The former shock mistress brought tears to Oprah Winfrey's studio audience when she described feeling her baby kicking on Mother's Day. Department stores may be pushing the dolled-up "Evita look," but Madonna has switched to pastel colors, soft makeup and a demure, Catholic-schoolgirl hairstyle. (She donned the Evita look for the film's Hollywood premiere, but otherwise, she says, "it's something for special occasions. You're not going...
...press release Ovitz acknowledged, "It is important to recognize when something is not working." For Disney, his exit comes at a perfect time: despite troubles at recently acquired ABC, its theme parks are booming and the studio is enjoying a bumper crop of holiday hits, including Ransom and 101 Dalmatians. Analysts were unperturbed. "This is as good a time as any to have this kind of change in top management," said Harold Vogel of Cowen...
...entire apparatus of state censorship rolled over on Beckmann. His work was systematically removed from German museums; within five years, 600 of his paintings had been confiscated. After he and his wife fled, he lived and painted in Amsterdam for 10 years, using an old tobacco storeroom for a studio, and then in 1947 went to the U.S., where he died three years later...