Wednesday, September 10, 2008

BEASTY BOY ENTERS THE WORLD OF INDEPENDENT FILM

Offstage, a Beastie Boy Enters the World of Independent Film

By MELENA RYZIK
Published: September 8, 2008

"Every day the Beastie Boy known as MCA, who spent years rapping about girls and parties and the five boroughs, goes to work in an office. Sure, it’s a cool one: the former headquarters of the Benjamin Moore paint company, it is a loftlike space filled with surfboards, skateboards, flea market paintings and his fellow Beastie Mike D.’s records; the attitude is dot-com casual. In this atmosphere of dudes, MCA has become the Boss

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. . . Now, despite some formidable odds, he is pursuing his cinematic interests with a new division of his company, Oscilloscope, which acquires, produces and distributes independent movies." (read article)

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