Word: berge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeff Berg, who runs International Creative Management, your principal competitor, says it is not legal for you to receive compensation from MGM or any other studio while representing talent...
...Then why is Berg so adamant in attacking your deal with the bank...
...bank that took over MGM/United Artists in a foreclosure last year, to straighten out its bad-news, $3.4 billion movie-loan portfolio (last month the bank wrote off a third of those loans), to find new investments and, Ovitz hopes, to sell the studio. In the view of Jeff Berg, who runs rival International Creative Management, Ovitz's arrangement makes him crypto-chairman of MGM, which represents an untenable -- and perhaps illegal -- conflict of interest. "I want to solve it politically within the industry," Berg said last week, backpedaling from his initial talk of legal action. But he intends...
...Kemp, a producer with NBC News, will give an Emmy she won last month for "Outstanding Research" to CIA Exhibit Center director Linda McCarthy on April 23. Kemp is giving McCarthy the award for research she provided for an Emmy-winning profile of World War II spy Moe Berg...
...HAPPENED TO THE GLAMOROUS young German violinist ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER? She used to be just another pretty face, riding to glory aboard great war- horses named Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. On her latest Deutsche Grammophon album, though, she harnesses two modern violin concertos and tames them both. In Alban Berg's ineffable 1935 two-movement concerto, a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James Levine...