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Entertainment mogul David Geffenannounced that he will donate $4 million to two New York AIDS organizations. "I hope my contribution will encourage more people to come forward and give generously," Geffen told TIME Daily. "The real need is to raise money from people, whatever they can give, whether it's ten dollars, a hundred, a thousand. I've given $10 million to AIDS causes over the last three years." The money will be divided between the Gay Men's Health Crisis and God's Love We deliver, an organization that provides hot meals to homeless AIDS victims...
...Seagram-owned entertainment giant MCA inked a 10-year deal with DreamWorks SKG, the studio created by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. MCA will distribute the studio's films internationally and its music- and home-video releases worldwide. Geffen valued the overall deal as potentially worth $1 billion...
Some media execs claim there isn't much that companies can do to restrain artists once they have them on their rosters. "Artists make records, not record companies,'' says David Geffen, the film and record producer who is now one-third of DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. "No record company tells them what to record...
...Geffen, whose label stopped distributing the Geto Boys in 1991 because he couldn't stomach their lyrics, also knows it's not so simple. Record companies routinely tell artists to remix their albums or record new tracks. Something like that happened two years ago at A&M records. Its president, Al Cafaro, heard a track intended for an album by the rap artist Intelligent Hoodlum. Bullet in the Brain was about killing a police officer. In the wake of the uproar over Ice-T's song Cop Killer, record executives everywhere were thinking twice. "It was nothing that we could...
...ownership stake in Interscope, a small label that releases Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg. (Earlier this year, Time Warner increased its ownership in Interscope from 25% to 50%.) The standards of taste at Warner Music labels, moreover, have at times seemed extraordinarily lax. Several years ago, Geffen Records (then affiliated with Warner Records) rejected a Geto Boys album because of its explicit lyrics about mutilating women and having sex with dead bodies. The album was immediately distributed by another Warner label...