Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vegetable tones, maxiskirts--fashion has revived the '70s once again. But nothing has captured the Liza-at-Studio-54 aspect of the era as redolently as Ultrasuede, the must-have synthetic for fall. A wonder of chemical processing, faux suede is turning up in the form of trousers, shirts and belts from such hot young designers as Jill Stuart, Cynthia Rowley and the Morrissey Edmiston team. Stuart's new Ultrasuede "Fonda" dress is long gone from the racks of L.A.'s Fred Segal. But the material doesn't say retro to all. "The feel is casual elegance," explains handbag designer...
Last year some 300 of these low-rent films were released direct-to-video--more than the number made by the Hollywood majors--and they returned about $200 million to the producers. Those numbers wouldn't make a mogul drool; a single studio smash like Aladdin made more in video than all DTVs put together...
...thousand-voiced Genie, was the event of a lackluster movie month. This time Aladdin searches for his missing father and discovers that Dad is a sort of Darth Vader, but nicer. The songs are wan, and the animation (done in Australia and Japan) isn't as spiffy as the studio's theatrical style. But Williams works harder than ever to create a bazaar of bizarre impressions: Woody and Sly, Hope and Crosby, Groucho and Chico and Brando, instantly repackaged into clever parody...
...they won't. Real stars bring in enough extra in theaters, on video, from television and cable, from abroad and even from commercial tie-ups in theaters, to make them worthwhile. In earlier years, Hollywood didn't spend $5 million to $25 million to launch each major studio film. When I was a studio publicist, we used publicity and promotion, at one-twentieth the cost of ads. Each of the eight major Hollywood studios could save $30 million annually by alerting audiences through publicity, wholesale purchases of radio time and on the Internet. The trick is to get into enough...
LAURA BAKER, 28; SPARTANBURG, S.C.; potter An artist herself, Baker knows that gifted children need more than glitter and glue to thrive. In 1993 she started COLORS, an art studio that provides inner-city children with professional materials and guidance. More than 650 children have participated in the program, in which they paint community murals with educational messages. Says Baker: "Art is a way to get to know yourself and to express who you are without being completely vulnerable...