Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once said during the 1970s, are "a business run by 10 idiots and Bob Evans." Back then Evans headed Paramount, and he could do no wrong: he was responsible for Love Story and The Godfather, among other hits, and later made Chinatown under his own production deal with the studio. During the '70s, Evans was married to Ali MacGraw, his third wife, and that's the decade he became friends with Jack Nicholson and hung out with Henry Kissinger. But the '80s weren't nearly as much fun. Evans was busted for possession of cocaine, and a vicious murder...
...ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because a botched tonsillectomy (by the studio doctor who will one day perform her abortions) gives her Marlene Dietrich's voice...
...many people read production credits? Despite being nominated for 34 Grammys and winning 12 during a 24-year career as a keyboard player, songwriter and producer, the Canadian-born Foster, 44, is almost unknown outside the music business. Recording artists, though, know he's a studio wizard who jump-starts stalled acts and lifts successful ones to new heights. No wonder Michael Jackson, whose image and career are shaky as never before, has turned to Foster, who's producing songs for the King of Pop's next album...
Foster's musical talent and the advent of synthesized sounds have made it possible for him to produce a record almost single-handedly. "I'm a control freak," he admits. Sometimes he cuts demos in which he plays everything from "drums" to "cellos" on his computerized keyboards, hires a studio singer to lay down the vocal and then presents the polished product to a recording artist, saying, "Here's what your song could sound like." In fact, he did that with I Will Always Love You for Houston...
...lost soul of the postwar teen, glamourized for the movies. In '50s film, that looked revolutionary. Today it just looks brilliant. Dean was important not only for what he represented but also for what he achieved: a delicacy that grounded his anger, a supple craft forged at the Actors Studio and on live TV dramas, a charisma that drew all eyes to him and the characters he created...