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People had been bugging Brooks for years to turn The Producers into a musical. But he resisted them all until 1998, when DreamWorks exec David Geffen talked him into giving it a try. "He was a pit bullterrier," says Brooks. "He was on my pants cuff, and I couldn't shake him." It helped that Brooks' movie career was in a slump (his last feature, 1995's Dracula: Dead and Loving It, had flopped) and that Geffen had--"unbeknownst to David Geffen, but knownst to me"--tapped into a longtime dream of Brooks': to write a Broadway score...
Once a week in her apartment, over bagels, cream cheese and whitefish salad, they continued to work. By the time the show was ready for a staged reading last April, Geffen had reluctantly dropped out owing to other commitments, so a new chorus line of potential backers was invited. By the intermission, Rocco Landesman, head of the Jujamcyn theater chain, said he was in. Others followed quickly. Broderick and Lane (who played Bialystock at the reading) were cast, though it took some convincing. Lane wavered because he felt his character had too little to do in the second...
Clinton pleads bewilderment over it all. If he were trading pardons for money, he asks his friends, wouldn't he have helped out his DreamWorks buddies, who were pleading on behalf of jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier? "David Geffen will barely talk to me!" he says. His clumsy reactions reveal how heavily he relied upon his palace guards. All that's left of the Clinton spin machine is a succession of temporary press secretaries and an ad hoc group of advisers. He is no longer able to change the subject with a merry economic report or poll-tested Executive...
Love hurts. Especially when your boyfriend's ex-wife drives her Volvo over your foot. That's what actress/singer/rock-icon-widow COURTNEY LOVE alleges in a lawsuit filed last month against Lesley Barber, a Los Angeles woman who was married to Love's current beau, Geffen Records executive JIM BARBER. In the $1.5 million suit, Love claims Barber is "obsessed" with her and has engaged in a "20-month campaign of stalking" and "harassment," blaming the end of her marriage on Love. According to the suit, Barber drove a car straight at Love last June. Love says she jumped...
...Neko Case and Her Boyfriends, "Furnace Room Lullaby" The female counterpart to #5, Bloodshot stablemate Case brings the rocking twist to modern country that Geffen spent millions trying to buy for Maria McKee. Case's studiously art-directed image belies a fundamental passion and a noteworthy set of pipes that cut to the chase in a satisfying set of tunes penned by the new wave cowgirl and her chaps...