Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grill, endowed with soft frozen yogurt, calzones and tri-weekly live music. Plus, you don't have to go outside to get there. Unbeknownst to most, Cabot, like Adams, has tunnels. Unlike Adams, it also has places to go. In contrast to many other houses, Cabot has a dance studio, a weight room, sound studios and all the other amenities of modern life...
Such drama is no longer rare at MGM-Pathe, the company formed when the mysterious mogul Giancarlo Parretti acquired MGM last fall. Parretti smiled broadly for the cameras as guest of honor at a $250-and-up-a-plate charity dinner last month, shortly after asking studio creditors to take their long- delayed payments in weekly installments. He then flew to Europe in a frenzied quest for fresh capital...
...tight are things at MGM? The studio has delayed the release of two completed films, Delirious and Thelma and Louise, because it doesn't have the money to pay for prints and advertising. Such postponements are "unique and embarrassing," says Peter Bart, editor of Variety, Hollywood's top trade magazine. You can't blame Mickey Rourke and those crew members for worrying: some studio employees have seen their paychecks bounce. Parretti needs about $250 million to cover operating costs, future marketing costs and release of the films now held up. To raise the money he is appealing to European investors...
Parretti has faced ballooning troubles since acquiring the studio. He has been slapped with two lawsuits, one just two weeks ago, by producers who claim he sold the rights to shared properties -- the Pink Panther films and the James Bond films -- too cheaply. In January a court in Italy upheld an old conviction for fraudulent bankruptcy that Parretti has been fighting for nearly a year. The entrepreneur has also been shamed in Hollywood's most public court, the box office. All the films MGM has released since the acquisition (including Rocky V, Not Without My Daughter and Desperate Hours) have...
...class background, the way of life the revolution mercilessly crushed. She was the adored child of a rich Moscow textile merchant, whose money enabled her to go to Paris in 1913 and study under those secondary Cubists, Jean Metzinger and Henri le Fauconnier. Even her student work -- the big studio nudes in a Cubist idiom represented in the show -- has striking analytic toughness. Its painted planes, jutting and curling in imagined space, become literal in 1915: painted cardboard still-life sculptures inspired by Archipenko...