Further south, a studio on Queensland's Gold Coast, built in 1988 by Dino de Laurentiis, a Hollywood producer, churns out international television product for its joint proprietors: Village Roadshow, an Australian distributor, and Warner Brothers.

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Clayton, the son of jazz bassist John Clayton, has been playing piano for 18 years, developing a definable improvising skill set with major West Coast musicians, including studio professionals such as his father and his uncle, saxophonist Jeff Clayton.

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He embraced the dancing life, and before long, he was traveling up and down the East Coast as the only boy on his studio's team.

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The Museum, which opened in 1988, was created in one of the City-owned buildings of the former Astoria Studio complex, built in 1920 as the East Coast production facility for Paramount Pictures and now on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Out On the Coast, that wonderful novel about the Hollywood studio system in its prime, seen through a prism of humor and pain, has not been matched to this day.

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