Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Willis, fill up a lot of airtime by having characters sit around and gab; talk, in production terms, is cheap. A virtue of this necessity is that it allows writers the luxury of exploring the ins and outs of characters and relationships in ways that feature films--certainly mainstream studio films--rarely do anymore...
...other remaindered O.J. news: a dismissed Simpson juror is reportedly doing the only logical thing for a person in her position--posing for Playboy. Tracy Hampton, 26, spent last Thursday at a studio rented by the magazine and set up to resemble a courtroom...
Simpson's talent agency, International Creative Management, has dropped him as a client; publishers are reportedly balking at making a deal for his second book; and it is hard to imagine any network or film studio alienating a large chunk of its audience by putting Simpson in a TV series or movie. "In the eyes of many people he's still a murder suspect," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president at McCann-Erickson advertising. "Why should advertisers associate themselves with that kind of problem when they don't have to?" Offers a top movie agent: "I don't have...
Miller's own regular bits include jaunts to the ladies' room, where she bumps into surprise guests like Heidi Fleiss, who outfits her in new lingerie. In another recurring segment, Miller takes phone calls onstage from members of the studio audience, who are seen on a video monitor. The phone bits can be funny (a viewer revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless...
...Faust--by a Broadway run, perhaps even as early as the late fall. The theatrical form seems to suit him perfectly, both by training (he has released 17 film sound-track albums) and by birth (his uncles Alfred and Lionel were two respected musical figures of the Hollywood-studio Golden Age). Newman remains braced by anticipation, but wary. "I believe," he comments, "I'm too young to handle success...