Previous work experience as a window display artist and fashion designer provided an appropriate foundation for the films of Joel Schumacher. Amiably shallow, slickly produced and filled to overflowing with glossy images and beautiful people, these films are a triumph of fashion over substance. At their best, they are tasty Hollywood confections. At their worst, they're just movie junk food. But they usually go down easy.After entering the industry as a costume designer, Schumacher wrote screenplays for "Car Wash" (1976), a modest ethnic comedy, "Sparkle" (1976), an old-fashioned Black musical
