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...Chris Collingwood thinks he made a deal with the devil. Adam Schlesinger thinks he finally caught a break. What Collingwood and Schlesinger--co-founders and co-songwriters of the band Fountains Of Wayne--actually did was this: they recorded a song about wanting to sleep with a friend's mother. Then they made a video with Rachel Hunter, the ex-Mrs. Rod Stewart, playing a modern Mrs. Robinson in a bikini. Naturally, Stacy's Mom became a top 10 hit--the most downloaded song on iTunes--and earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. "People are watching...
What drove Fountains of Wayne to Stacy's Mom was the usual soul-killing nightmare of the music industry. Schlesinger and Collingwood, both 36, met as undergraduates at Williams College and soon after started Fountains of Wayne (named after a lawn-ornament store near Schlesinger's New Jersey home), adding bassist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young along the way. They signed a major-label deal with Atlantic Records in 1996 and were promptly buried by everything else on the radio. "There's this expression, Bo-Now music," says Collingwood. "It's that whole genre where singers just scream...
...meeting where Wetlaufer was demoted, two of the editors walked out, saying they thought she should quit outright—and then, in protest, Harris Collingwood ’77 and Alden Hayashi resigned their HBR posts...
...dispute with Suzy Wetlaufer and the senior management of Harvard Business School Publishing was solely, or even primarily, about her relationship with Jack Welch, I would not have resigned,” Collingwood said...
...Collingwood also said that the situation has caused tension at HBSP, where he says little work has been accomplished since the Wall Street Journal reported last Monday that editors had called for Wetlaufer’s resignation...