Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This, at least, is the impression a viewer gets after seeing the trailers--the two-minute previews--for this summer's major-studio films. For months these promos have clogged theaters, an early goad to the moviegoers' want-see. When a trailer works, it can give its film the hint of blockbuster. The Independence Day spot has done that and more. Its shots of citizens staring up at an ominous spacecraft became famous so quickly that it inspired a rival promo: a spaceship lands and disgorges the Brady Bunch for A Very Brady Sequel...
Much of the exodus can be directly linked to the departures last year of the agency's shrewd, ruthless chairman, Michael Ovitz, and its charismatic president, Ron Meyer. Both men left for studio jobs--Ovitz to Disney, Meyer to MCA. They took with them the agency's aura of invincibility and its ability to inspire fear in the Hollywood shark pool. Rivals, long resentful of the agency's No. 1 status, are smelling blood in the water...
...album, recorded in Ireland, marks the Cranberries' return to the studio after a two year break. Composed while the group was on the road touring after the release of No Need to Argue--the album was recorded in a similarly hectic experience--it took the Cranberries less than four weeks to record all thirteen tracks. The group admits to "very few takes, very few edits" but qualifies this as being intentional. Attempting to strive for something "different", the innovative group decided to avoid the "over-polished work" of "safe pop bands." Nevertheless, they enlisted the help of Bruce Fairbairn, known...
...production also benefitted from excellent set design and lighting; set designer David R. Gammons is quite successful in creating a cemetery and an artist's studio, with rain pouring outside the windows. A moving stage keeps the scene changes smooth, and is instrumental in keeping a complex play like this as lucid as possible. Unfortunately, the sound was not up to par with the great visual scenery of the play: A few lines were inaudible, and many more were impossible to hear for those sitting in the back...
...Earth--Universal-International's 1955 space opera about American scientists kidnapped to a distant planet, where they are attacked by macrocephalous monsters. The MST3K prologue is a bit ragged, but once This Island Earth kicks in, so does the Brains' mother wit. It finds the absurd everywhere, from the studio logo ("Doesn't the fact that it's Universal make it International?") to the ethereal, annoying ringing sound that accompanies the aliens ("Now we know what the world sounds like to Pete Townshend...