Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Interstate '76, a new CD-ROM game from Activision, doesn't exactly recall the most seductive parts of the disco decade, but it does offer a great laugh or two. With the gas crisis still raging, bands of vigilantes (who look suspiciously like the waiting line at Studio 54) are blasting their way around the Southwest. Your mission: to join the pack and stop a rival gang of terrorists. All good fun, but why load up PCs, those most '90s of devices, with this tribute to the '70s? "The future," explains developer Zack Norman, "is boring." Maybe...
...thing for studio bosses, who will never replace the NEA as arts benefactors, is to make a profit. And that can happen when it's the directors and stars, eager to do good works and glean Oscar nods, who subsidize the projects by working for next to nothing. Branagh's sumptuous-looking Hamlet was shot for a mere $18 million. In its domestic release, the film need gross only about $12 million to break even. Why, Robin Williams, one of Hamlet's A-list co-stars, could earn that much on a single Jumanji-size movie...
...noted a lack of minority job applicants. Shortly after the 1992 race riots, he started ICF, a summer training-and-mentoring program that helps minority high school graduates break into the behind-the-scenes crafts of Hollywood. Of the 85 students who have completed the program, 31 have landed studio jobs. Says Heinrich: "Talent, if stimulated in the right way, will blossom...
...film has woman-to-woman origins, though it ended up in the guiding hands of men. Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing bought the rights to the Olivia Goldsmith novel when it was still just an idea and Lansing was still a producer. After she took over the studio, she handed the project to the prolific Scott Rudin (who produced Clueless and The Firm), who in turn hired Steel Magnolias screenwriter Robert Harling. Admittedly not a woman, Harling says he did bring some personal insight to the first-wife mind-set. "They tell you to write what you know," he says...
...originals; for that you'd have to be 15 again, your ear soldered to an AM radio in the urgent expectation that the next 3-min. jingle would explain and rectify your life. But the movies' songs--with their close-rockin' guitars, shivering tambourines and wall-of-sound studio skills--have a musical validity. Thirty years from now, they could be a new generation's invisible friends...