Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Champs--the first TV show from Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen's DreamWorks studio--is far more sentimental. It stars Timothy Busfield--Elliot on thirtysomething--as Tom McManus, a happily married father who spends most of his time with three romantically troubled buddies he's known since high school, all of whom own far too many pairs of sweatpants. Tom and his wife Linda (Ashley Crow) long for a time when their friends were not divorced; perhaps they should also long for dialogue with observations more interesting than "You can't turn back the clock...
...beautifully installed, with every piece given its due of light, air and space. It contains more than 100 sculptures in wood, stone and marble, together with the remarkable bases Brancusi made for them and backed up with a host of photographs that document the life in his Paris studio. (Since Brancusi took his own photos, they contain important clues about how he meant the pieces to be grouped, viewed and interpreted.) Already seen in Paris, the show won't go anywhere after Philadelphia; this is the last chance...
Brancusi was born in 1876, in a small village in Romania. He completed a long and thorough training in sculpture in Bucharest before reaching Paris, almost penniless, in 1904. He even worked briefly as a studio menial for Auguste Rodin before quitting in the realization that, as he later put it, nothing grows under great trees. Throughout his life, legends stuck to Brancusi like burrs; he was apt to be seen as a peasant sage, a Carpathian exotic (to most Parisians, Romania barely qualified as part of Europe). And he seemed even more of an original to American collectors...
...work, with its flowing contours and obsessively refined surfaces, was one of the main sources for Art Deco style. Imagine the top of the Chrysler Building carved from oak, and you have something very like his sculptural bases. As Rowell points out in the catalog, guests in his Paris studio would be regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth, the hyper-refined freehand curve with the lump and the block. And when those sleek organic forms, half-volatilized in light...
...celebrity-heavy format of its early days, the newscast now stresses social issues of interest to young people, with enterprising stories on the homeless, teens in prison and endangered wolves. It has featured interviews with Janet Reno, Benazir Bhutto and Mikhail Gorbachev--who dropped by Channel One's Hollywood studio for the chat. The news program won a prestigious Peabody Award for its coverage of aids, and in 1994 beat out such network competition as Prime Time Live for an award at the Chicago Film Festival...