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...labels to work together for my brand. Of course I learned that's not easy to do because the labels are in competition with one another. There was only one year [1995] that they all listened to me, and that turned out to be a great year for everybody. Geffen, Loud, Def Jam and Elektra got together and bought this thing called the Wu Family Tree, which is a bin they put in record stores. It had the GZA record, the Wu-Tang record, the Method Man record and so forth. Everybody in the bin's sales doubled the month...
...fair, but that's the way it is. GARY OLDMAN apparently had no idea. The British star of The Contender says he signed on believing that his character, G.O.P. congressional inquisitor Shelly Runyon, was "the only true patriot in the film." Three guys, named Katzenberg, Spielberg and Geffen--who happen to be distributing The Contender--as well as director Rod Lurie, a self-proclaimed "die-hard liberal," saw it differently. The result is a predictably left-leaning movie that has Oldman and manager Douglas Urbanski seething. Urbanski, who has a producer credit on The Contender, tells Premiere the finished product...
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...