Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next year Edmonds' Vietnam course will be transmitted to 20 off-campus sites around the state. And what about the guest lecturer who was grounded in Chicago by a snowstorm? No problem: out-of-town speakers can visit an interactive TV studio and get beamed directly into a Ball State classroom...
Griffin Mill, the hero of the delicate and corrosive new movie The Player, knows and cares. Mill (Tim Robbins) is the Vice President in Charge of Abusing Writers at a Hollywood studio. He knows the game, and his bosses know he knows it; he is, in the parlance, a player. And when Mill receives threatening notes from one of his writers, he can play rough. He tracks down a suspect (Vincent D'Onofrio) and puts him in turnaround. He immediately woos the writer's tawny girlfriend (Greta Scacchi) and dumps his own. No screaming, no remorse. Business...
...just happens to be that the song isprobably the least offensive-sounding, sotherefore the record company figured it would bethe least difficult thing to market as a single.It's not like, gee, guys, gotta write a single.Gotta write a pop tune. If we were to have goneinto the studio in July and said, "Let's crank outa hit single," we probably wouldn't have come upwith something like "Ratlesnake", because it'sreally not what's going on the airwaves right now.We would have gone and made something moresub-poppy, or something with a hip-hop beat andswirly things around...
...hundreds of dictionary-thick books listing thousands of home videos, and the glut of literature on the relatively new world of the VCR, Tom Jones is a near-perfect piece of art which had been shoved off into some dark corner while cheap comedies go from the studio cutting floor to the movie theaters then to a video store shelf in a mater of days...
While Springsteen was trying to decide whether his Human Touch album was actually finished, he returned to the studio and emerged, only about eight weeks later, with the 10 songs on Lucky Town. The sound is somewhat sparer here, the lyrics rougher around the edges and maybe even better for that. Better Days, which kicks the record off, has already attracted some comment for the lines, "Now a life of leisure and a pirate's treasure don't make much for tragedy." It's as if Springsteen were taking a long, hard look at himself, but the key lines...