Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...festivals, which don't seem to have much to do with each other. At the official festival -- the most important annual showcase for independent American films -- 32 fiction and nonfiction features competed for prizes this year, and dozens more pictures were given special screenings and premieres, ranging from major studio releases (Reality Bites, starring Winona Ryder and directed by Ben Stiller) to a selection of offerings from Latin American and Native American filmmakers...
This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
Hollywood, after all, is a town where gay men run major production companies, direct big-budget movies and star in burly action adventures. Yet only a few studio pictures have depicted even subsidiary homosexual characters. Among the recent ones: the lesbian cop in Internal Affairs; Michelle Pfeiffer's gay neighbor in Frankie and Johnnie; the young black in Six Degrees of Separation; Harvey Fierstein as Robin Williams' brother in Mrs. Doubtfire...
...heart, Kramer asserts, "it's all about money. They say there's no gay movie that has made money. Well, no movie about gay men has ever been financed by a major studio, except the 1982 Making Love, and that was terrible. So we have no data to base these theories on." Considering that the major studios release hundreds of films a year, Kramer asks, shouldn't a few of them acknowledge the existence of gays? "We're not asking Hollywood to make Gone With the Wind or Jurassic Park. They don't have to bankrupt the company or defraud...
Perhaps Jackson, who has been accused of impropriety by no other boy in these five months of glaring publicity, can revive his charisma and career. "Michael's state of mind is good," Cochran says. "He'll be back in the recording studio soon." He will also participate in NBC's The Jackson Family Honors show on Feb. 21 -- an event that could lure more rubberneckers than a Tonya Harding free skate in the Olympics...