Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood mogul Michael Ovitz is revitalizing beleaguered MGM/UA. He's persuaded Credit Lyonnais to pump $400 million into the studio and a new TV division. Overseeing the new MGM/UA: ex-Paramount chief Frank Mancuso...
...musicalizing Sunset Boulevard does not detract, it does not add much either. Of nine songs centered on Norma, just one achieves what dialogue alone could not. When she returns in what she imagines is triumph to the studio that dropped her two decades before, she envisions glories to come in As If We Never Said Goodbye. If the scene were spoken, her delusion would be pathetic. The song, in effect an interior monologue, defers her disillusionment to celebrate her undiminished presence. The assertive With One Look and the lilting, wistful New Ways to Dream are engaging paeans to bygone achievements...
...only quintessential nude men such as Michelangelo's David, but also and to great effect the average, flawed specimens that are commonly found in everyday life. Her modus operandi consists of approaching strage men and offering them sums of money to pose for her...in her home studio...
...began, at least in the mind of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' resident whiz kid, a musician of abundant compositional gifts and emotional fragility. The Beatles went to work on the album that would become the single greatest mainstream breakthrough in all of rock. Wilson, simultaneously, was in the studio working on a record called Smile that would turn into rock's most notorious grail. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band made history. Smile never made it out of the studio...
...Beach Boys still play around, of course, although Brian is now making solo music on his own. He is currently in the studio with Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks, good news that demonstrates, like this great collection, that the creative tide is still strong. Surf...