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...EVEN GEFFEN RECORDS BELIEVES IN FAMily values these days. Yes, the outfit that gave us the devilish Guns N' Roses is now pushing MICHAEL W. SMITH, a contemporary Christian star. Last year Smith's Place in This World was a No. 6 pop single. With his new album, Change Your World, Smith aims for the loftier success of Amy Grant, who blazed the Christian-to-pop crossover. But while the secular songs Geffen will promote to radio are pleasant (the syrupy duet with Grant, Somewhere Somehow, could be a smash), the album's better cuts reflect Smith's religious roots...
...community, ripening the Advocate into a newsmagazine and evoking such other debuts as QW and Genre. Of these, the glossy, full-color Out is the most professional looking, drawing contributors from the Los Angeles Times, the late Connoisseur and Ms., as well as mainstream advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff: "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only thing they have in common. Out must span the chasm of gender, traditionally even wider...
Remember sophomore Sarah Downing against Maryland in the regular season. Freshman Sarah Winters against Princeton in the NCI semi-finals. Senior Becky Geffen against Vermont. And senior Buffy Hansen all season long...
Diller may want to get his hands on another network -- NBC seems tantalizingly vulnerable -- and remake it in his own image, with spikier programming, homemade stars and a skeletal news staff; he could even sell the network's local stations. "Whatever happens," says David Geffen, the movie- and-music magnate who has been mentioned as a potential Diller investor, "he won't rest for long. He loves a challenge. He's not afraid. He's got elephant balls...
...ROBBIE ROBERTSON: STORYVILLE (Geffen...