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...South American champs were easily able to feed the ball to Pablo Aimar and Ariel Ortega, who were in turn meant to create scoring opportunities for Gabriel Batistuta. Both of these diminutive players have had the misfortune of being tagged "the new Maradona." Perhaps the heavy burden of that label compelled them to show off their dazzling skills every time they received the ball, weaving one way, then the other, deceiving a couple of defenders, then turning again and accelerating away from a third. Why go for the old one-two, when you can try for a one-two-three...
...support, or at least neutrality, when the government announces its decision on euro entry by June 2003. If so, it was only sweet enough to make Murdoch hungry for a fight. THE BOURSE Buy Buy Britney German group Bertelsmann is paying about $3 billion for Zomba Music. The label, which owns acts like Britney Spears, exercised a "put" option that forced Bertelsmann to buy. Jacking Up Fiat Signaling major restructuring ahead, Fiat CEO Paolo Cantarella resigned. He was replaced by Paolo Fresco, who learned his management style under Jack Welch at General Electric. No Trade Is An Island Instinet...
...other day, a promotions executive at a major record label was bemoaning the state of his business. The Internet, bootlegging, CD burners--they were all killing him, he said. Then he turned his frustration on a new scourge. "I would really like to know," he asked, "who are the 6 million people buying O Brother, Where Art Thou...
Soon the world will find out if Burnett is right. In partnership with the Coen brothers, T Bone (real name: Joseph Henry) releases this week the first products from DMZ Records, a boutique label that plans to ignore every bit of conventional record-industry sales wisdom. DMZ's first two releases, both Burnett productions, are the Louisiana-laden sound track to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and a new album--the 186th--from mountain-soul legend and O Brother featured player Ralph Stanley. There will be no large promotional budgets, no appeals to commercial radio. Burnett is convinced...
...friends at the Elan School, a drub rehabilitation center for kids in Maine. DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, former talent agent, ex-chairman of MCA Inc. and the last of the Hollywood tycoons; in Los Angeles. Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment colossus with a film studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks and theatres. In over fifty years in the business, Wasserman's clients included Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Garfield and Gregory Peck. In 1974 he gave an unknown director called Steven Spielberg a chance to direct his first film: Jaws. An inveterate Democrat, Wasserman raised millions...