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...adolescent fancies, has jumped on the trash bandwagon-at least in its musicals. Composers, librettists and directors ransack old Hollywood movies (42nd Street) and newer foreign films ("Nine"). They bow to rock 'n' roll for their subject matter (Dreamgirls) or their urgent tempo (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat). They find their heroines in comic strips (Annie) or in history that reads like cheap fiction (Evita). The message sounds clear as a cash-register bell: the way to make a hit is to recycle pulp into...
Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...
...recent entry is the one the voters remember best. "Tommy was faced with the decision of whether to have the comfort of another week or two of previews or to open in time to qualify for the Tony," says Producer Zev Bufman, whose own show, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, also lost to "Nine." "He went for drama-the awards or nothing...
...reality and artifice into felicitous collision. On the Zoetrope sound stages, Production Designer Dean Tavoularis has created a show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously garish Technicolor-pulsating magentas and ambers that mirror the characters' moods even as they assert the environmental imperative. Coppola has staged his scenes in long, sensuous takes. A single shot may comprise several scenes, several planes of action and setting, while the camera glides around the ordinary hero and heroine like...
...Technicolor films were rare, but studio photographers like Clarence Sinclair Bull snapped vivid publicity shots of the stars in something less than living Ektachrome. In Hollywood Color Portraits (Morrow; 157 pages; $15.95) Cinema Historian John Kobal has collected 74 of these astonishing pictures. Greats from W.C. Fields to Kim Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal...