Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next four albums and a $25 million advance on top of all that for making videos and promoting her music. As is true with the film industry, a new monetary bench mark like Jackson's becomes the standard by which every star in town measures his or her ego. "The bigger the deals get, obviously everybody starts to shoot for the moon," says Bob Krasnow, former chairman of Elektra Records who now runs his own record label for MCA. "The marquee value of a well-known artist's name means a lot." Accordingly, R.E.M., the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon...
...round of megawheeling and megadealing, it would not be the first time. In 1991 Virgin signed her to a $40 million contract--which was then unprecedentedly large--and that pact led the way for big-money deals by Prince, the Rolling Stones and others. This wasn't totally ego driven: the development of the CD has led to a decade of steady growth in the recording industry, which has seen its sales increase from $4 billion a year to $12 billion a year since...
Largely because I covered much of the Clinton campaign for this magazine, the Washington Post listed me among the possible suspects. But while I had the opportunity, I, along with any other journalist I can imagine, lacked motive. Reporters are an ego-crazed bunch, and who could resist publicly crowing if you had written a novel even half as good as Primary Colors...
...interview is probably not a good idea for O.J.," says TIME's Patrick Cole from Los Angeles. "Money is probably driving this decision to some extent, but it is also Simpson's need to be liked. He's used to that, and is probably doing this to satisfy his ego more than anything else. The danger for him is that the tape will be watched very carefully. Psychologists for the plaintiffs in his civil case will be watching his demeanor closely. He could be giving the Goldman and Brown family lawyers ammunition." Simpson, acquitted on October 3 of murdering...
...MASTER CLASS The role is larger than life: the century's most famous diva, Maria Callas, captured at an age when her voice has left but her ego remains as outsized as ever. The performance is commensurately grand: Zoe Caldwell, by turns imperious and humbled, cruel and sympathetic. Terrence McNally's Broadway play may have its structural shortcomings, but it is cheering to watch so much talent hurled at so much ambition...