Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With three claps of her hands, Shilpa M. Jain '98 silenced the 30 screaming children who just seconds earlier were running around the Currier House Dance Studio...
...working title: Aging Hunks Shoot It Out), I wish to publicly retract that statement. Director Michael Caton-Jones, of Rob Roy fame (or ignominy, depending on how you see it), has created for us a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere. The studio swears it's a remake of the 1973 thriller Day Of The Jackal, but this Jackal resembles neither its predecessor nor the Frederick Forsythe novel on which it was based, except that it contains an international terrorist known only as "The Jackal...
...that has become a fixture at the subway stations where she plays. After nine years of playing covers of other indie bands in prime commuter locations across Boston, the city's underground songstress is thrilled that she's finally getting the financial backup to explore her creativity in the studio. It feels good to know that others believe in her--and if the crowd's reponse to her short set at the Middle East 10th Anniversary Party is any indication of marketability, Lord may soon be faced with the same small-label royalty status that Parker Posey has achieved...
...Pete Droge's "Sunspot Stopwatch" and Peter Laughner's "Cinderella Backstreet," she laments, were "done a long time ago" and therefore "rough around the edges." It's a little dubious, then, whether a full-length band album can successfully maintain the sincerity of Mary Lou Lord while integrating studio production elements...
According to Lord, the five months she's spent in the studio have all but obliterated any uncertainty she may have had regarding the artistic feasibility of a studio recording of subway songs. She's done her time touring the country, made some friends and foes and brings less venomous alliances with her into the new effort: Stevie Nicks and Shawn Colvin sing backup up some of the tracks...