Word: lieberson
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Died. Goddard Lieberson, 66, a musician who became the immensely successful president of Columbia Records; of cancer; in Manhattan. English-born, Lieberson started out to be a Composer, but instead went to work for Columbia in 1939, quickly gaining a reputation as a trend spotter and a man who could work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bart...
...denied."Bunk," says the director, who proposed an "ideal" length of six hours but cut the film down to 4 hours 38 minutes. He was prepared to cut the last eight minutes when, after months of acrimony, he and the producers quarreled irrevocably. Puttnam and his partner, Sandy Lieberson, claim that Ophuls quit. Ophuls says...
...controversy that Ophuls has managed to stir up has rattled the producers. Lieberson told the London Times two weeks ago, "We never tried to impose our philosophical ideas on the movie." In fact, the film, which is now approximately 3½ hours long, severely alters Ophuls' intention. Many of his interview questions have been cut, along with footage of his family (his wife was a member of Hitler Youth) and of Germany during the Weimar Republic and later in the painful process of denazification. Also excised was a scene of middle-aged Germans, nude in a mixed sauna, discussing...
Ophuls has notified Puttnam and Lieberson that he wants "no credit at all" on the aborted version of The Memory of Justice, and if they use his name he will "sue the pants off them." The backers -particularly the BBC - still may use Ophuls' name, perhaps in some nebulous phrasing like "Conceived by Marcel Ophuls." No one who has seen any of Ophuls' previous work would ever believe...
...already created what Classical Records Co-Director Thomas Shepard calls "a different feeling on top." Lieberson feels that if Columbia is going to experiment and take chances, as it has frequently in the rock area ("And not all rock groups make money, I assure you"), it should be willing to do the same thing in the classics. "The moment we stop being able to do that is the moment that I stop wanting to be a part of this business...