TASTE MAKERS : CALENDAR’S PREVIOUS TASTE MAKERS

Calendar’s choices of Taste Makers--people who move and shape our arts and entertainment in 1988--run the gamut. If the eight faces on the cover form a rather curious collection, it’s because creative abilities come in many forms.

As a result, our group’s pursuits range from directing the distinguished PBS series “American Playhouse,” to fronting the hard-living, hard-rock band Guns N’ Roses. All eight individuals have been significant players in 1988 and we feel will continue as leaders and creators in the future--as have the Taste Makers of previous years.

In this fourth annual survey, we hope to present an insight into what stimulates and influences these people of influence.

1985: film critic Pauline Kael, theater director Peter Sellars, rock singer/songwriter David Byrne, restaurateur Alice Waters, record producer Quincy Jones, TV producer Michael Mann, architect Arata Isozaki, composer Philip Glass and film director Alan Pakula.

1986: choreographer Mark Morris, Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, jazz artist Wynton Marsalis, conceptual artist John Baldessari, film producer Carolyn Pfeiffer, TV newscaster Linda Ellerbee, singer/songwriter Peter Gabriel and theater director Robert Wilson.

1987: Time Magazine art critic Robert Hughes, U2 lead singer and writer Bono Hewson, TV advertising creator Joe Sedelmaier, motion picture director/writer Oliver Stone, TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey, theater/film actor John Malkovich, pop singer Madonna and composer John Adams.

This project was edited by David Fox, assistant Calendar editor.