Word: geffen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supercilious egotism to score a total of five Top Five singles. Even the hotly debated rumor that they don't do their own singing in live performance doesn't diminish their commercial luster. "If I'd heard the first Milli Vanilli record, I would have signed them," says Geffen Records president Ed Rosenblatt. Notes Jeff Gold, a vice president at Warner Bros. Records: "They may not be what I listen to when I go home, but they have good looks and dancing ability that appeal to the kids. The same goes for the New Kids...
LORI CARSON: SHELTER (Geffen). Sylvia Plath for the CD age. Carson is too insistently sensitive, but this is a debut record. Her ballad, Way of the Past, is a worthy postscript to a love affair; it might even be a route to a bright future...
...that lowly status is on the verge of a major rewrite. As studios battle one another for the limited supply of surefire scripts, screenwriters have begun snaring huge fees. In a spectacular bidding war among major studios last month, producer David Geffen bought a Shane Black script titled The Last Boy Scout for $1.75 million, which is believed to be the most ever paid for a single screenplay. Says Black: "I really won the lottery this time...
...studio commission, a status that entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter went with the lower bid by Geffen because he agreed to hire producer Joel Silver, who handled Lethal Weapon...
...Geffen had considered a sale to Time Warner, the current distributor of Geffen Records, or Britain's Thorn EMI. Though MCA paid a premium for Geffen's Top 40 talent, the company gains needed clout in the booming record business -- adding pop-rock power to its strong roster of black and country artists. At least in the music business no one is talking about "labels for less...