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...conventional wisdom is that Hollywood has taken over the Sundance Film Festival. But one could just as easily argue the reverse. The Mike Ovitz pretenders flock to Bob Redford's mountain to view the sort of offbeat, low- budget films that they would probably not otherwise see or pay much attention to. Struggling filmmakers, meanwhile, can meet, and perhaps impress, Hollywood decision makers without a bossy secretary blocking the way. "The festival gives people access to Hollywood who wouldn't otherwise have it," says Tom Rothman, president of worldwide production for Goldwyn. "Here you don't need a reservation...
...metaphor ((as he does repeatedly)), I have a slugging percentage of about .600," he says. "For every 10 things I've brought to market, six of them will end up in homes." Some have unusual venues. He is developing two shows for PBS: a 13-week comedy series starring offbeat stage performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered...
...Atlas of California (Viking; $50) by James Halliday is organized according to American Viticultural Areas (AVAS), the U.S. government's muddled system of classifying the nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery, for example, he notes that they once donned masks, waved toy guns and hijacked the famed Napa Valley Wine Train, forcing its startled passengers to sample Gundlach Bundschu wines...
Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...
INCITE! Free, and done by my friend Tim, and one of the biggest influences on the way I think or write about music; accurate reviews share the pocket-sized spaces with graphics approrpriated from Victorian magazines and with offbeat autobiographical bits (like "Out of the Way First Names: A History of People"). Write to P O Box 649, Cambridge, MA 02138; you may be a slightly happier person after reading Tim's zine, which is more than I can say for my own work. See you next year...