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...since Geffen Records in the early 1980s has a record label so dominated the industry. This year five of Interscope's albums have hit the Top 10, including the bland pop-rock act the Wallflowers, smooth R.-and-B. quartet Blackstreet, and shock rocker Marilyn Manson. "They keep things lean and focused," says Geoff Mayfield, charts editor of Billboard magazine. "They don't have a ton of acts, but they have a very high batting average with the ones they...
...star in called Out on My Feet. And Wahlberg is already drawing serious critical attention for his unexpectedly impressive work in Boogie Nights as Dirk Diggler, a softheaded hard-core porn actor. "This new movie of his is going to make him a star," predicts DreamWorks mogul David Geffen, an early Wahlberg mentor. "He's built a legitimate career for himself, which he did not have as a recording artist. There's something about Mark, a sexy bad-boy vibe, that's very appealing. People thought he was here today gone tomorrow, but he's going to be here today...
Actually, the film cost a thrifty $50 million; the $2.7 billion is for the startup of the multimedia company that Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen created in 1994. But since DreamWorks has been on the pokey side delivering boffo product from its TV and music divisions, the release of The Peacemaker has sparked anxious anticipation. Shouldn't the studio's first film, like the opening bars of a symphony, make a statement about the outfit's ambitions...
...shepherded a passel of hit movies, including The Flintstones, Casper and Twister. He helped develop TV's ER, masterminded a CD-ROM (Steven Spielberg's Directors Chair) and oversaw the giddy, multithrill Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler's List established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records the testimony of Holocaust survivors. In April its first...
Blaine should know. In the past few years he has sprung his deadpan, charismatic sleight-of-hand in hip hangouts on both coasts, impressing some of the biggest names in show business--including Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Geffen, Mike Tyson and Madonna. Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio have befriended him. At a party after the Grammys this year, Blaine sidled up to hot young singer Fiona Apple; today they are a couple. "David's magic reduces you to being three years old," says Apple, "that complete wonderment with the world...