| Show - --- -- -- o THE ARTS Sunday September 8 The Salt Lake Tribune 1991 k Is publishing perishing? No two Roger Cohen By most optimists concede that the notion of publishing being recession-proo- f has been shown to be nonsense Thinking more carefully about what to buy consumers feel they can do without hardcover books So a profound change it seems is taking place After a decade of rapid sales growth which fueled a rapid rise in the money that authors were able to command for their books a period of retrenchment has begun "In the '90s there is going to be a lot of pressure on us to be lean and to be mean" said Alberto Vitale chief executive of Random House Lean and mean almost certainly means fewer people and fewer THE NEW YORK TIMES die-har- two-wee- five-yea- k The Utah Film and Video - VID ' OP ID WSW 444yr4-z14- Mtn De DI MID DI PP14 Dif PPM 111111311nal ' - 111116 o I 973 t:: ' : maw - M 119T e 111:3 tow e BRUCtsZ e Innitni 9 ?Inn in 4ittelDit eck R S ' i I - - 3:21 BOB - 000E3N A - '"' 12"1 IP'41115 -76 774-1:-- --- "39 ' 060-77- THE DOCTOR ' SUCKIL'S ' k'' 90 0413) ' - 310 ' ln L' 1rtitoix4 455 II ) S i1 ntge i0C 430 1:10 4:00 7:10 10:00 12:55 3:10 5:25 7:40 OR 9:55 NO GROUP fI ' iv tal tzp0 RA11199 DOUBLE OAKI0 OUN PURI LUCA 1 1 'Attie 1 VIC ! q"32If "' (PG-1-3g 2:20 240 'It 4- I - 5464582 Exit 334 At -- 3 "" : DEAD AGAIN (In I -- ' : "- - 11:50 710 45 TRUE IDENTITY 4:50 1:35 9:15 I (vanOSSO - ' ''4' ' (R) l'' HENRY A - HOOD (RIL- FEARIPt TIDI DOW DOUBLE Ittl& otri2t2T evito0 JOUPBET 2 T07'20 PI1'171' (PG) - a tt 1215 limb Law 41w kiCAPIS 20 7p24740 ZS ':-'''''- r I WPM Snir iri ALL 911004A ZTAIITING - ':(:"I't it ousi s - a mccoMAtitisass 7:'' souly 449 PM44 I :00 300 500 :00 9:15 3 ewers PLAY 3 (n) 1100111115SELL - - o- (13) '' Sows I:44 Slugs Dolby twos Hi csoll NOLLYWIC700 REGAR i : 1 t A 1 ' 10 '' ' 1 SOME FOSTER C- - " ' el t -- : 2 (R) - - t ' 4 skits X - R 4 - - r-- -- - It fiewistat - mop taFkleatirr- 1 l tkpi-111Al- 111 No RESISTING MMU111111111081Alidar 01 A 'THE COMMITMENTS1A FILM WITH POTENT COULD PROBABLY IT LIBERATE THE - Soutiiii WORLe: Turf" (OS ANGELES nME! 0 P Kenneth 'ROUSING ENTERTAINMENT: fo7ItisorAørE JUST rlJt AT THE MOVIES5f IS 1111 "'THE COMMITMENTS'is A LOUD i ROLLICKING COMIC EXTRAVAGANZA t ilL - torribert r '-')b " 7t cAkr : ' I i 011CAGO SUNT1Mtg Ittv" -- 1 1441g) MAGA11216:' 0 ' I c's' JoMs NEWSOM 1 i A It1-970"s a- 144 '21' '''‘:''‘ lk -- t 711 N0 0 At I 1:00 3:05 5:15 7:25 9:30 0 "1 4 s : IF 4 ' c - Á GREAT TIM: -- Richard Corlim TIME Ili '' 1 1 rk 74 or qi 4" ' ' s s i I 4 4 ' : - I i (411 l t 1 Iv i if 4 it t is at 0 OrWil1 - - 711::)111:: F ill - It MEYER - - - - 2:15 5:00 7:15 9:15 - - - -- i '''' 117W 0 I - If 6tif It 5a p t - I: - : 1 1 "WO e I - iA (DOLBY) 13N STARTS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER it ' AT THESE THEATRESI 2 I 0 fiNDITVIO jilt-Eli- emlf r Dt r ItegYVIP CP4f 1717Mrr7S::77 - um Sam 4:k4e Sown 11:50 2:15 4:35 7:10 9:20 (ULTRA STEREO) OM 272-9- 7 II OCIFC)14 10011048MMUMNI SIS South 7 lh L 36461 03 et cl1 el 40 Pt $ ill3 ts 744 7 01 i 344 )0'1 I t I ) f It) Ii - - - 341(4133i sw6 t: it4tSlikelDitvz: 4'11Rit‘1k21g-mot ANTOINfOgirifiAIN 0 ft: - TM NICHOLAS - 4 pw'ill1""clA1c1'cAytIsiowoLvEs t " '''"1007010"'""A""9""Kw7m4""'""-""- 11:50 r I 1 -- 4 ZS a -- t - i ' 2 1AFFE ' 06-4- 3 ' : ) i i k I I)mmit6P40Pm - JOHN 111191 1 i - ' t e SALLY t ISA4416-1904:11- 1 ( ti IROKEN 7:10 9:25 ' 1 TERMINATOR PO-I- 3 CYNEIL P" IMOINEN:: (P013) 1111) Mt9nel? 440 MID 9 Amts2177g7:0021 u Pt0101 HOOD (11013) 7so & logo In Dolby Steno ) - NM (PM '' 91E470 1243 245 4:4s 6:43 6' 3) Deal twos in V21) ItiRRIS CAN'T ED (P134i DISNEY PPODUCTIONS WALT ': MS IIIND p1212l1tritrZI :4 i tv n1 HOT $HOTS (P013) tot- NnFi'ZICI t 1 CIPSISTINA APPLEGATE r () 14 MA Wass ns? 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XS41 calm Popo wow 'U1112-- -'- (RI 11:55 2:15 4:40 7:05 9:35 (PG-1- c: -- S 's 1 1 Lg 1 tP-:!Ite-j 5:15 7:40 10:05 REGARDING '' General-admissio- n tga411641642642s St 2 9:40 IITOUBLE IMPACT - COMPANY BUSINESS - "I '- l PASSES --- WWA 77n ' i 0yr-f- ' - ' "V°46 -- 503 141'2eC":"Alwr - (PG-I- if 4 s s s 191 - p - n Lt - (PG-1- suctan7:15 i' 't - 4 4 tragic love between two yolm0 islanders v ( The film's final scene is the apogee of al perfection the art of silent film' write's ' critic Lotte Eisner tickets wilt be sold at the door from $5 witlr discounts for students seniors' and Utah Film and Video Center' members - illoolt' Y'1't - - t 1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00 CITY itt - - 12:10 2:35 5:00 7:25 945 ROBIN HOOD ""S j (5- DOC HOLLYWOOD (PG-1- ' MIX' (PG-I- 2:05 4:30 710 9:50 it45 4 1:v 1- ' rt 441 DOCTOR ) 'k ' 1131C1' - o ' S3cdiWOK 1:46 P11 - it 12:10 2:35 4:45 7:25 9:45 THX NO PASSES NO SUPER SAVERS ' A e r 41 EAST ' - Itt"41' P' 12:00 2:40 5:05 7:30 9:55 '' V tolowtootfit '11 1 - THE At' ' 1-a- I ' - I 1 - i - 11114 1245 3:00 515 7:30 9:45 4If t 1 t me0toki IW) !''"'7X41'7'4-- - 1 "'"' 1 best-know- 'Jeff Craig SIXTY SECOND PREVIEW MATINEES' 1114 CAIN "Hackman and Baryshnikov are fun to watch in the first War good post-Col- d spy movie" t ir i ! — The 1927 silent movie "Chang" will be shown Wednesday: and Thursday 8 pm at the Utah Film and Video Center cit - ttst POINT BREAK (0) 745 10:05 - - s r- Ilc( i ' So HACKMAN BARYSHJOI(011 I:30 3:30 5:30 ' -- N Allniosellannallalmiolints Ealgoommon41111111m 101 DALMATIANS (0) e--''' &as MONIMEMP CHILD'S PLAY 3 (RI 1:50 3:50 540 7:50 10:10 ' ° g ' x z4 5114601 l''') ' - ' : "j8)'t1 44r 0010 I 1 0 ' 'THERE'S i l SANDt MOVIES4 't psses memiAllolowhegistmtAtalk I I CO : "I 11-11111-- 12:25 2:45 5:05 7:25 9:40 STEREO 7:00 STEREO trIrri:': (PG-1- 12:30 2:50 5:10 7:30 910 kise r - ! - tA6vett MOP OS7rU?3 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:30 t' 1' ! 7 4444444941404144444P4- I s12 OM - 4 ‘ ' I ' 1 libm oitfinil Itattg: itumlattkittlitittritte' 1 - ' ' : 1 s am "4 WOW $1111110 J 4 I N 1 "li LESII11104414 J009111Y (0011:05 303 7:00 I - - - tot 1-- 7:40 10:20 11 2 :74- (PG-1- (11 i ii i tilw5s 1 It 1 (PG-1- 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:20 2 On 1:10 3:50 6:30 9:40 15505111ATOR -- ' 11:25 1:55 REGARDING HENRY (PGI3) 4:20 7:20 9:40 11:15 2:05 cnv i) - 61 7111 11:30 2:00 4:30 7:05 10:00 DOC HOLLYWOOD (PG-13- ) 12:35 2:555:1030:55 COMPANY BUSINESS (PG-I11:50 2:15 4:35 7:10 9:20 CHILD'S PLAY 3 (R) 12:00 2:40 5:15 7:50 10:05 DEAD AGAIN (R) 12:1C) 2:35 4:45 1:25 9:45 101 DALAIATIONS (G) 11:40 1:30 TERM114ATOR 2 (kJ 4:00 7:00 10:00 : 1:2'7 1 1 leg- A Ps'141"'''' - wusinelt) ' Dead Again Is a special engagement No clilf suck" -a double tollute - 701 Valcrot) (PG-1- ' 1til Søtd1 ' ID 07) - la I -- -- 7- THELMA & LOUISE (R) "moo (9G-1- COMPANY BUSINESS Mal r---- mowersAmyt-tot-1- 4f "ti Tit '" - - 50 010Allt & ALL SEATS $100 ' : 117r - DISIL - )- Jb : t v4ipJbit- i AT t rise" CITY SUCKERS (PG-- I 3) - 9:240331W 3:30 1:30 ky3 441133 3X 1 i GT I ' ' ' SNOW :1 I 7r"fr: CANII WILD WARTS MAD IA 710: carload OPEN 7A1 DALARATLANS" por s t- $ Cen- Murnau a renowned craftsman known for his expressionistic point of view shot the film in Tahiti Bora Bora and Morea The story is of from 1929-3- (G) plus "CITY SLICKERS" (PG- - 13) $100 30 ABOUT WHAT $4 "101 VIVI tritito T411°41 )47 ' jefT7I"rkII 5463887 TERMINATOR 2 -- 4:26' ': v a AthHOWS8EORE PA514t141misk ' HOT SHOTS : 0110 I i "Sequence by sequence the picture was planned to seize an audience by the hair" writes critic Kevin Brown low "to excite them as no ordinary film 5 cr12'Lnle3)11 aUll :StitGA1N MATMEEt 14 4LAKIPm1Dr"m1 4 41010 E Exit 334 At - ' II iz ALL SEATS 5400 30 5100 W DANCES WITH WOLVES 1:00 4:30 8:00 Nagai ILL OVIESte E ' Sallee:IS en SOOSJSUrnel es KB ' 1110NEVOIn eral ''' 111111110111211ti WArtiTUD E ''' 911 'r: le I WHAT MOUT SOB IPOI 1:20 3:20 5:20 7:20 9:20 West 961A1 50010180() ' f wild" VALLLS-61111- -' - 4 - had ever excited them And the magic works today" The German emigre Murnau finished "Tabu" in 1931 the year of his death and four years film "Sunafter his trirtir rythtik lir tit 'Ir 6 130 3:30 sack 1:3119:30 n ' 1 (I IWILY !Irving N Ittriii-NAes ITMII ROBIN HOOD pApct ornilEvEs 09 ent HOLLYWOOD I1 S0041791110011001 a Mfffll NIGHT ftnNDAY DOC - l2Y - ' DISCOUNT P 800 E 9400 SO 110t44444 egAZQ 1'"7017trii : 272W7 ROCKER (PG) DAN (PGI31 3!(6 716 ladit)134 11)W (I i 1 D- 1 1200 h A 4 Shot in Thailand "Chang" tells of a family's struggle to live on the edge of a jungle The making of the film was itself a struggle as cast and crew endured malaria and cholera and attempted dangerous scenes using 500 native hunters 400 elephants tigers leopards pythons and "other denizens of the - 3900 SO WASATCH BLVD - MEE!! ' - secoloorn 1' - ! team endary producer-directo- r of !Aerial' C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack will show Wednesday and Thursday FW Murnau's last film "Tabu" will show Sept 18 and 19 All screenings are at 8 pm at the center 20 S West Temple Cooper and Schoedsack are known best for their 1933 "King Kong" starring Fay Wray They made "Chang" six years earlier and Mr Cooper maintained throughout his career that it and not "King Kong" was the best film the pair ever made self-delusi- ONOES I silent film masterworks to the Salt Lake Art Center y (DS PC 1 ter will bring two newly restored "Chang" created by the t i : d $50000 for those worth At the National Book Award said Joseph Fox a Random House senior editor ceremony last year Catharine Even in this summer's dolStimpson chairwoman of the fiction jury declared that American drums Random House paid a rewriting was marked by an astonported $375000 to Nathan McCall of The Washington Post for a ishing vitality and vigor She was book about growing up as a black swiftly followed on the podium by the author Saul Bellow who said male in America and Alfred A he had never known the country's Knopf has paid more than literature to be in such a laMenta$400000 for a novel by Donna Tartt bly lifeless state Neither of these writers has had It is the third rule of publishing a book published before that no two people will agree on But optimism is the opium of anything even where to have the publisher Hope sustains him lunch (The first rule is that there even as book after book disapis only one thing worse than losing an auction for a book — and that is pears without a trace dead as commercial propositions after winning it The second is that it is r k lives and pregmore to always nearly profitable nancies leave your money in the bank than books to venture into trade-boo"Against the odds you have to Layoffs at companies from Sipublishing where a profit margin of mon & Schuster to Farrar Straus believe in every book" said John & Giroux have been proceeding even 5 percent is elusive) Sterling editor in chief of The third rule is central to the quietly Houghton Mifflin Romanticism still runs strong The lists of published books business because it underscores have not shrunk as fast as work Amid all the rubbish published — one central fact: Nothing in pubforces because as most publishers and most people agree that it is lishing is demonstrably true Optisee it the fewer books you publish more abundant than ever — many mism and pessimism fact and rumor statistics and guesswork the less chance you have of a best publishers still dream of finding the undiscovered Joyce or Hemseller mingle so completely that objecBut Viking Penguin for examtive certitude and this industry ingway of the 1990s Some say these publishers are bear as much relation to each oth- ple intends to cut its list by about naive hapless participants in a 25 percent er as an Argentine steak and a vegAnd Morgan Entrekin the new losing battle dinosaurs in an age etarian dinner of space shuttles Videos and cable Even the most basic question of president and publisher of the Atlantic Monthly Press is cutting the television Nintendo and falling when a book is sold remains nebulous Publishers like to think that house's list by more than 30 perliteracy rates have all been identified as spelling death for the book when they have shipped a book to cent "There are too many books and industry a store it is "sold' But in fact But you can't take a video to bed stores can always return unsold too much staff in publishing tobooks to publishers day" he said "Margins have or the beach reading remains the shrunk and something has to give So many of the "sales" publishcheapest form of sustained enterers talk about amount to no more Whether it is a day away or a taimnent and millions of Americans still like it than what Steve Wasserman the month or a year I do not know The fact is that bookstores have But there will be a day of reckoneditorial director of Times Books mushroomed in the 19808 and calls "wishful thinking" As a reing Before that day some of the with the help of new computer sult everything from authors' royvast media conglomerates that technology they are becoming alty statements to industry sales More figures remains hopelessly vague bought into the industry over the larger and better than ever back-list of it and sell space means more room for decade tire last may of state of this Despairing — on books older off titles the houses sometimes-nastthings and of the Advances to authors are likely which publishers really profit berumors that are the lifeblood of a cause their costs have already come down gradually Publishto $17 billion industry Richard E are to been defrayed love ers lament that they Simon Snyder chief executive of Whatever happens one thing is & Schuster said recently: "People paying too much for books but cablood sure: is when their their nobody will really know up in this business can be so mean remains as what is going on so the margin for That is why I have two dogs that I pacity for muddling through is likely to be vigorous as ever love!" "We are paying millions for very large The pressure on publishers to look to their dogs for consolation books for which we should be payhas been particularly strong of ing $750000 and 000000 for late Sales are very weak Even the ' t- - - Restored insiders agree on answer silent film books worth $100000 and $20000" classics "It's crazy" to be shown industry i -- - ASMOOF10"046A00914011Wan-t'e- tp I !' !" 1 :' - - |
