Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Last October financier Kirk Kerkorian agreed to sell MGM/UA to Australia's Qintex, but the deal collapsed when the buyer could not complete the financing. Talks with several other bidders have since fizzled. Last week Los Angeles-based Pathe Communications said it will pay $1.2 billion for the venerable studio, whose 1,000-film library includes James Bond, the Pink Panther and West Side Story. "A great day for Europe!" said Giancarlo Parretti, the Italian investor who controls Pathe, of the agreement. But some film industry veterans were skeptical...
That is just the kind of sentiment one might expect to find on talk radio, though perhaps not from the talk show host. Barry Champlain, played by Bill Brazell, is the impassioned and crusading host of "Nighttalk" who spews statements such as these in the studio set in the Mather House TV room...
...callers appear in silhouette to the right or left of the studio, bathed in colors. The actors portraying them, too numerous to mention here, are often very effective in their performances. And some attempt seems to have been made to coordinate the color filters of the lights with the characters of the callers--angry callers in red, pet-loving men in light blue, and anti-nuclear power advocates in lime green...
...particularly noteworthy among the callers is Tom Chick as Kent, the teen-age "party-er" who represents our future. Chick is dynamic both in silhouette, as a caller, and in the studio, when he visits Champlain. The humorous yet realistic dialogue between Chick and Brazell during the visit is a strong scene in the show...
Future doctors in Birmingham get a leg up by studying a bicycling skeleton. Aspiring engineers in Oak Ridge, Tenn., explore a model coal mine. In New York City, make-believe media moguls produce their own sitcoms in a TV studio. A decade ago, it would have been hard to find such innovative exhibits in children's museums. For the most part, those museums were pint-size versions of adult institutions, where kids were expected to keep their mouths shut and their hands in their pockets...