Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider that DreamWorks, which plans to make movies, TV shows, records, toys and computer software, has no film studio or recording studio, no products--indeed, no pedigree but its owners' resumes. No problem either, for Spielberg is the director of Jaws, E.T. and Jurassic Park; Katzenberg supervised the glorious revival of animated features while at the Walt Disney Co.; and Geffen has made stars of the Eagles, Guns N' Roses and Nirvana on records, Tom Cruise in movies and some singing cats on Broadway. So the brand name SKG had a certain allure for investors. Come on in, the Dream...
Instead of raising a tent, they are raising money, and their success has been impressive. Never mind that the beaches of Malibu colony glitter with the shards of the grandest dreams. "Starting a studio is not an easy thing to do," says Warner Bros. chairman Robert Daly, who may see some talent from his animation unit sign with SKG. "No one's done it, and sustained it, in 50 years. But DreamWorks has a very good chance of being successful. Every move it's made has been well thought-out. Every day its chances look better...
...give 24 hours a day to this job; Capshaw won't let him. Says Katzenberg: "I perfectly understand the ground rules: 8:30 to 5:30, Monday to Friday, is mine. Everything else is Kate's." Even during business hours, the genial wrangling over, say, building a studio could fester into ugly rifts over long-term strategy. As the old proverb goes, "Same bed, different dreams...
Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises. Few readers probably know that Samuel Goldwyn once offered Freud $100,000 to write a "love story" for his movie studio. Sometimes Douglas gets her details wrong. Gertrude Stein's famous tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose"), for example, does not begin with "A," as the book quotes it. But these are minor flaws in an erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis, both of which had a sense "of having been a specially privileged and charged site of American experience.'' We shall not see their...
...everyone is plugged into the Unplugged sound. Steve Albini, the combative producer of Nirvana's last studio album, In Utero, says record companies have seized on Unplugged as a way of repackaging old, previously recorded material. Already own the original? Now buy the unplugged version. "From an artistic standpoint, it's a total joke," says Albini. "You take bands that are fundamentally electric-rock bands and put acoustic guitars in their hands and make them do a pantomime of a front-porch performance. It's not an authentic reading of that music at all. It's like watching a water...