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Conspicuously absent from the bitter end were Pop's architects: Spielberg, Howard, DreamWorks pals Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen and Howard's partner Brian Grazer. Pulling the plug and skipping the farewell party were among the few things in Pop's short and troubled history that found all five in agreement. "Thank God I've got another occupation," says Grazer. "I love going from foxhole to foxhole in movies and television, but the Internet space is Vietnam...
...turned him down, making room for McDormand. Then, shortly before filming began last year, Brad Pitt--Crowe's choice to play Russell Hammond--opted out, and Crudup took over. "He was so lucky that the big stars he wanted for this movie ended up not doing it," says David Geffen, a partner in DreamWorks, which is releasing the film, and a friend of Crowe's since the '70s. "They would've unbalanced the movie...
...line. Farm club.com has a weekly TV series on USA Network. The site (which also has a record label) has signed three artists it discovered online to recording deals. "The Internet has made more people interested in music," says Jimmy Iovine, CEO of Farmclub.com and co-chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M Records. "With more people getting into music, you'll find that there are more people capable of becoming great artists and having great ideas." The Web hasn't produced the new Kurt Cobain yet, but--who knows?--Nirvana could be a click away...
...Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney's singer-guitarists, lacked the commercial ambition to come up with a moniker that didn't glare at them from the highway. "Our friends gave us a lot of flak," says Brownstein, "naming all the other roads in Olympia that we could have used." David Geffen's ear was not glued to the wall of their cube...
...anticomputer nerd. He is threatening to dynamite the library where he works if its card-catalog system is replaced by PCs. Brian Dickey (Peter Falk) is the police negotiator--Columbo raised to the nth degree--trying to talk him out of anarchy. Lee Kalcheim's play, at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, sets them dueling metaphorically over the fate of modern civilization. Sometimes his targets are too easy (no more Starbucks jokes, please), but he has written fine, funny parts for the edgy, earnest Alexander and canny, counterpunching Falk. And his ending is a coup de theatre that's both logically...