Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jain and the five other Harvard students spread throughout the studio are teachers in CityStep, an organization that teaches dance-theater to Cambridge fifth-and sixth-graders...
Monthly rents for a student usually cost $350 to $400 in the Harvard area, and $650 for a one-bedroom studio apartment...
...chief had been competent enough in overseeing its lucrative electronics and music businesses. The company's disastrous foray into Hollywood, however, "changed Mickey," as one Tokyo-based Sony director puts it. Schulhof's lavish spending to remodel Sony's Madison Avenue headquarters had already drawn grumbles in Tokyo. The studio, led by Jon Peters and Peter Gruber, had gone through money the way film runs through a projector. Meanwhile, Sony's hardware team lost faith in their leader...
...Best Friend's Wedding, Air Force One (another split with Disney) and the summer's box-office champ, Men in Black, which has grossed $243 million in the U.S. alone. Funny thing is, these hits were put together by guys who got fired a year ago, after the studio suffered through more than five money-losing years that bottomed out with Sony Corp. taking a $3.2 billion write-off--essentially admitting its investment had been worthless. Despite having ably handled the flock of pictures he inherited, Calley has yet to shepherd a film of his own devising from script...
...this puts Sony Pictures in the ambiguous position of being simultaneously red-hot and not exactly. After the studio releases Zorro and Godzilla next summer, it's not clear what major projects it will have on its menu. In an industry that retains heat about as well as plastic, the cry is predictable: Show us the movies...