Word: biz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible targets. The Japanese company rejected one studio, Orion, as too small. Another candidate, Paramount, was dismissed because some of its holdings, ranging from publishing (Simon & Schuster) to sports (the New York Knicks), didn't fit into Matsushita's strategy. Ovitz recommended MCA, which had the mix of show-biz operations that Matsushita wanted...
...Arsenio Hall," said Rob Pilatus, 25, at a rowdy press conference in Los Angeles last week. Pilatus, one half of Milli Vanilli, was struggling to explain how the duo's yearnings for legitimacy had provoked their German record producer, Frank Farian, into confirming what had long been show-biz rumor: that Pilatus and Fab Morvan, 25, were in fact techno-puppets, fronts for a studio-manufactured sound that sold 10 million copies of the album Girl You Know It's True, on which they never sang...
GEORGE MICHAEL: LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 (Columbia). Michael's previous album, Faith, was a monster hit, and the biz expects this new record to push him into rock's commercial pantheon. Maybe. It's a schizy piece of work: part bombast, part hypercharged pop. Pop prevails, but it's a struggle...
...weekend on 129 stations, will be something of a cross between Donahue and This Week with David Brinkley. Each hour will focus on one topic, opening with a taped report followed by a round-table discussion led by Jackson. A live studio audience will be on hand, and show- biz celebrities may appear occasionally. The program will feature other unconventional elements, including dramatic re-creations and newsmakers acting as reporters. On the first show, for example, Native American activist Russell Means will report on Indian living conditions from reservations around the country...
...novel, written in epistolary form, concentrated more on the dark laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then...