Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Seed? That's what everyone wanted to know last week, as reporters and camera crews chased the eccentric scientist from one TV studio to another. Gradually, the story of a strange and erratic life emerged, for this oversize man--who looks like an Old Testament prophet--is both brilliant and bizarre...
...soothe him, however, was the prize money, as he frankly and cheerfully admits. "It was almost a million dollars," he recalls. "What I'm really grateful for is the fact that I could build a very nice house in a very nice little bay in St. Lucia with a studio...
DIED. OWEN BRADLEY, 82, country-music impresario and creator of the "Nashville sound," which helped push the genre into the mainstream; in Nashville, Tenn. In 1955 Bradley opened the first recording studio in Nashville, where he later crafted some of country music's most enduring tunes, including I Fall to Pieces with Patsy Cline and Coal Miner's Daughter with Loretta Lynn...
...spent only one week among the 10 top-grossing films, will struggle to earn $20 million at the domestic box office. Though it could do better internationally, the film seems likely to rank as one of this market's costliest flops ever. It caps a miserable year for its studio, Warner Bros., which, according to Variety, dropped from second to fourth in market share and, thanks to other underachievers like Mad City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, averaged the lowest gross per film of the six major studios. The trade and business press have slammed longtime...
DIED. DAWN STEEL, 51, brash, market-savvy studio chief; of a brain tumor; in Los Angeles. In her merchandising days at Penthouse, Steel learned to recognize a hot product, whether it was a phallic amaryllis plant, Gucci-labeled toilet paper (her own invention) or, later at Paramount, a movie like Flashdance or Top Gun. She was fired while giving birth to her daughter, but rebounded in true celluloid style, becoming the first woman to head a major studio: Columbia Pictures...