Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Weir and Hart tour, former Dead bassist Phil Lesh is mixing a three-CD album of concerts taped in 1990. Lesh also says there are 12 new Dead songs, available in either rehearsal or incomplete studio versions, which may be released soon. A reunion of the remaining members is always a possibility. Says Lesh: "We will play together in some form, but nobody knows when." Except, perhaps, for Jerry. --C.J.F. Reported by Greg Fulton/Atlanta and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...friends in Friends, NBC's hit sitcom, are all for one and one for all when it comes to negotiating a new deal for themselves. According to sources close to the show, the stars are telling Warner Bros. that unless the studio accedes to their demands, they won't be back in August to start work on new episodes...
...stars have got raises since the show took off, but with Warner looking at staggering profits, the cast wants more. The studio has reportedly sold the show into syndication for an astronomical $4 million an episode; the deal hinges on the Friends staying for at least two more seasons to generate enough episodes for reruns. With Warner's big payoff on the line, the stars have a lot of leverage--although given the panoply of agents, lawyers and managers involved, the six will defy industry odds if they stick together...
...middle of the day and she looked like an angel," he recalls. But others credited her rapid ascent to the Hemingway mystique. "As celebrity became aristocracy, it became inheritable," says former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello, who knew Hemingway as part of the crowd at the now legendary Studio 54. "She inherited this fame and this position." Hemingway later said she felt like an imposter in that world and started drinking "to loosen...
...five interns wait to greet arriving guests--a job that is coveted or evaded, depending on the group slated for the evening. Another intern is stationed at the studio-adjoining "green room," a woodpaneled room the size of a Wigglesworth double. He or she is prepared with water and coffee for the set, to wait on guests and their handlers and to resolve minor crises: What if, for instance, the car scheduled to pick up Rev. Jesse L. Jackson picks up someone else instead? ("You're telling me your driver doesn't know what Jesse Jackson looks like?" I asked...