Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After perusing Toho's holy writ and digesting its meaning, Emmerich faxed the parameters of the studio's Godzilla-by-committee to Patrick Tatopoulos, creator of the aliens in Independence Day, the duo's biggest hit so far. As fate would have it, Tatopoulos never got the fax. Forging ahead anyway, he designed a monster that tampers with nearly every rule in The Book and is likely to leave fans of the old radioactive reptile either in awe or screaming "Heresy...
...then head of its TriStar division (both owned by Sony). The partners put on hold a movie they had in the works, dubbed Project X, about ("I kid you not," says Devlin) a giant meteor on a collision course with Earth. Lee was also the most persistent of the studio execs in persuading Toho to lend out its famous monster. Still, when he saw Tatopoulos' model just hours before it was unveiled for the Toho board of directors in Tokyo, Lee was stunned. "It was just so different," he says, "so improved." Devlin says he heard of a little more...
...Instead, when he died of a heart attack last week at 82, it was lingering, pernicious, sad. He last performed live in the winter of 1995, but he was unsteady on his feet, and lyrics he'd known for years eluded him. His last original recorded tunes were the studio stunts of the two Duets albums, in which Sinatra revisited some of his classic songs in the company of spryer admirers, from Streisand to Bono...
...took that same fine-tuned tension and sense of challenge with him every time he cut a side. Out of the 1,414 studio recordings he made, and despite the hundreds of glories he left behind--from I'll Never Smile Again of 1940 to Hey Look, No Crying of 1981--there were songs that eluded him till the end. Studio outtakes and bootlegs show him chiding the arranger, bugging the conductor, riding the band and beating up on himself with a good-humored swagger that doesn't hide the disappointment and frustration that are chewing...
...Sounds) doesn't live up--or down--to the band's name. The quartet, based in Madison, Wis., and consisting of singer Shirley Manson (originally from Edinburgh, Scotland), guitarists Steve Marker and Duke Erikson, and drummer Butch Vig (who produced Nirvana's album Nevermind), had never played outside the studio before recording their debut album, Garbage, in 1995. Their inexperience showed: while the album had its moments, it often felt indecisive and inorganic. In the past three years, Garbage has had a chance to tour, and now it sounds more like a band instead of a science-class lab experiment...