Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifty years ago last week, Hollywood was the home of the avant garde. RKO released an experimental film made by a 25-year-old novice who didn't know the rules, didn't care when his studio elders said, "You can't do that!" Outrageous, iconoclastic, with warning shadows and baroque camera angles, Citizen Kane told future moviemakers that anything was possible. If you were Orson Welles...
Paramount can use the help. Ghost turned box offices into cash cows, but the studio remains a flophouse, home to such crowd displeasers as The Two Jakes and The Godfather Part III. What about rumors of a Paramount-NBC merger? | Nonsense, says Paramount chief executive Martin Davis -- at least for the near term...
...players are not performers but producers. "That's the guy who puts it together," says Clivilles. Producers who take a strong hand in shaping the sound and image of a group are a staple of rock history at least as far back as the early '60s and the grand studio excursions of Phil Spector. But never before have producers been so out front with their creative sound twisting and image mongering. As for C+C's masterminds, "I think we're more a part of the group than other producers are," says Cole. Even so, while C+C Music Factory...
...exactly do they do this? Well, they master recording-studio technology. (Cole: "It's hard to reproduce a guitar sound without being able | to play a guitar, but you can do just about anything else with a keyboard and a computer.") Then they hit the streets to find their stars. "We just go out and look," Cole insists. "We look in churches, clubs, restaurants. You see somebody walking down the street humming to themselves. You walk closely so you see how they sound. Then you ask them. You see someone who has the right look. You stop them...
...studio she could be harsh. She spoke in a whisper that was louder than a shout. On occasion she laughed heartily at her students' efforts. "With Martha," Richard Boone once said, "you get it right away or jump out the window." Glen Tetley, a protege in the 1950s, went on to become a ballet choreographer. Just before his first major premiere, he developed crippling back spasms; no one else knew his role. Graham solved the problem. Spying him in a cafeteria, she walked over and slapped his face hard. "You stand up there and go out and dance," she commanded...