Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost that too in an abortive bid later that same year. This is what he does own, bought in quick succession last summer and fall: 1) Silver King Communications, whose main assets are 12 TV stations that comparatively few people want to watch; 2) Savoy Pictures, an independent film studio known for producing movies (Last of the Dogmen, for example) that comparatively few people went to see but a studio that owns considerable cash and a quartet of television stations; 3) a controlling interest in the Home Shopping Network, which sells, well, a lot of junk (the company's sales...
...Diller was named CEO of Paramount Pictures. With Eisner, whom he installed as president, Diller made it the most profitable Hollywood studio, year in and year out. He was considered a lock for the chairmanship of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company. Then he lost a power struggle and jumped ship for 20th Century Fox in 1984. His reason for subsequently leaving Fox in 1992 was straightforward: "It's not mine," he said at the time. "I'm both young enough and old enough to want to own my own store ... It's the one thing I haven't done...
...Lucy's formation while Lane and Furar were still in high school, the band has gained a reputation as one of Chicago's most popular unsigned bands in recent years. In 1995, they released their debut, Breathe, proving that they could make the transition from live shows to the studio...
Over the weekend, each candidate visited the hotel at least once, whether to appear at the specially-constructed C-SPAN studio, to take part in the Bisquick Pancake Flipping Contest Monday or to join with 400 others in the hotel's conference room to celebrate Dole's second place finish...
Atlanta has several un-Olympic venues: its various adult entertainment centers. Now, however, Mayor Bill Campbell wants to clean things up. Last week he blocked plans to open a lingerie-modeling studio across the street from Centennial Olympic Park, a 21-acre downtown plaza, and Olympic City, Coca-Cola's $20 million theme park. Campbell said the !X!CLUSIVE modeling studio violated the zoning code, which requires such adult-entertainment enterprises to be at least 1,000 ft. from parks. A city agency is reconsidering !X!CLUSIVE's request...