Asked by Variety's Ramin Setoodeh, the event's moderator, if Thelma & Louise could be commissioned by a major corporate studio today, Sarandon scoffed: "Maybe as an animation".
In so doing, he created the Underground conduit that led from classical Hollywood camp to the transgressive trash of the 1970s and 80s that, in turn, kickstarted the indie rebellion against corporate studio blockbusterism.
We sell our bodies to apparel companies, we sell our gifts and years of experience to corporate studios, and we force ourselves to swallow the discomfort of calling our students "clients".
Again, there's a definite lack of documentation, but for whatever reason, Hollywood proved a tougher town than New York and by the early 1980s, Simon was forced to go to work for the very corporate studios that Wantu was supposed to be the remedy for.
In 1995, the photographer Eddie Adams bought the structure and converted it into a fashion and corporate photography studio.
At a news conference on Thursday at a Microsoft corporate television studio, he and Mr. Gates took pains to stress continuity in the company's leadership — what Mr. Ballmer referred to as the "relentless patience" underlying the company's strategy and long-term planning approach.
And another reverberation is it's a lot cheaper to tell these personal stories without any corporate or studio backing.
"It had an extraordinary atmosphere, so much more intimate than some of the larger, more corporate modern studios".
THE MINDY PROJECT (Fox, Sept. 25) This hotly anticipated comedy, created by and starring Mindy Kaling of "The Office," sounds like it belongs on NBC on Thursday nights (and it's made by NBC's corporate-sibling studio, Universal Television).
Corporate film studios and major record labels laud Protect IP and SOPA as a robust effort to crack down on the piracy of American goods.
But, increasingly, legacy publishers emulate corporate Hollywood studios: turning out branded, franchise entertainment, mindless drivel that appeals to the horny, nerdy teenager in us all.
