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Geffen was made an agent within 18 months, and left three years later to become a talent manager in Hollywood. Unable to impress film stars, he turned to rock titans, built up a solid list of clients (Joni Mitchell; Laura Nyro; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and made his first million at age 25. Geffen launched the Asylum label with $400,000 in savings in 1971, and a year later sold out to Warner for $5 million. Though he dresses casually, shaves irregularly and speaks with an un-promoter-like politeness, Geffen drives himself uncompromisingly. "I have the demonstration records...
...able to sign and retain big-name stars by giving them generous royalties (as much as 15%, about double the industry average), allowing them considerable artistic freedom and establishing warm personal friendships. "He romances them," says a New York-based competitor. Sometimes quite literally: Geffen used to squire Laura Nyro...
...film about second sight: that means about another way of looking at things. From the first sinister zoom into the surface of a pond broken by drizzle, we are already captured by the sudden fracturing of the reflected image. In their cozy country house in England, John and Laura Baxter are working quietly when John suddenly breaks a piece of glass, cuts himself. Blood creeps like some blotted gargoyle over the face of a color slide--it shows the interior of a Venetian church he is restoring. Outside, their little girl has just drowned, and her red slicker is floating...
...restaurant the couple meet two older ladies, one blind, the other with a significant something in her eye. When Laura helps get the speak out of the other's eye, the blind woman beams with joy: she has second sight, she says, and has seen Laura's little girl, happy and calling to her parents from the other side. At their table Laura faints, in a slow motion crash of food and dishes, and the Baxters plunge into an encounter with spiritualism...
...leader warning that "Mistakes can be made." The miracles that hold objects together, keep people from falling, and generally organize the world, turn inside out. Mistakes: a maid plunges into the hotel room while John is naked--one laughs, but with an echo. Coincidences: as John and Laura pass through an archway a shutter slams shut in the house above. Incidentals: in the wash room where Laura meets the two women sits a silent, Goyaesque attendant dressed in black, with an air of inexplicable mockery like the warning figures early in Death in Venice...