Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piano playing and faith in the ouiji board's design prowess make him a perpetually fetching image: Keeve never probes beyond the show that Mizrahi chooses to put on, but that's revealing in itself. At one point, the artist pauses in the middle of a Pronouncement to a studio of followers, his gaze riveted to a worktable. "Who's doing the crossword?" he asks. "Iguana!" Then it's back to the masses...
...little software company he formed in the early '80s came about because he saw movie man-hours being squandered on tasks computers could dispatch in minutes. (One more entry for the give-us-a-break file: he won an Academy Award for technical achievement for this assistance to studio accountants.) He wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make, and all these Top 10 lists of what movies the nation spent its leisure dollars on last week. He points out--enviously--that we do not know what Clint Eastwood was paid for The Bridges...
Actually, the author's first New York City apartment in the 1950s was a walk-down: the "back half of a basement" with one room and a toilet down the hall. There this shy, Catholic girl from a small town in Rhode Island would sit "cross-legged on my studio couch, Vivaldi's Four Seasons on the phonograph" and feel "joy exploding in my chest. Because from this house I emerge every morning into the place my father promised would be mine one day. The place where there'd be lots of people like...
SUIT SETTLED. By ART BUCHWALD, 69, and Paramount Pictures; for $825,000; after a protracted court battle; in Los Angeles. Satirist Buchwald and producer Alain Bernheim initially won their suit, which charged that the studio's Coming to America was based on a Buchwald scenario, after a 1992 trial made famous by Paramount's claim that the Eddie Murphy hit lost money...
...space in the Agassiz dance studio, if we can, or the Lowell lecture hall, and sometimes in basketball courts, but those are usually taken by [intramurals]," she says...