Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point most of the summer's gone and it's not really a big deal," Gibson said. "If it's going to be an issue I'd prefer that everybody just got along...
...only a day's notice when a new publisher was brought in; furthermore, it was announced that the magazine's traditional independence was being curtailed and that it would be formally brought under Conde Nast's control, a move Brown opposed and one that meant she would have to deal directly with the company's bombastic president and CEO, Steve Florio...
Would anything have kept Brown at the New Yorker? "Not once Harvey mentioned ownership," she says. "I wasn't looking for another 'job.' I really wasn't. The New Yorker as a job is the best job in American journalism. But [the deal with Miramax] was a whole other ball game...
...subsidiary label, So So Def, establishing him as a powerhouse in Atlanta's thriving R.-and-B. scene. Dupri, whose real last name is Mauldin, brought his parents, who are divorced, along for the ride: his mother, Tina Mauldin, runs his production company, and Dupri's deal helped his father, Michael Mauldin (a former road manager for various old-school R.-and-B. groups), land a job as vice president of black music at Columbia (he's now president of the division...
...Puffy comparisons by asserting, "The shoes I wear are a whole lot bigger than the shoes that he wears. I'm more hands-on than Puffy in terms of my production." In a sly move, Dupri recently signed Mase, who performs on Puffy's label, Bad Boy, to a deal under which the rapper will find and produce new talent for Dupri...