Word: mca
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...lawyer, built his firm into one of California's, and perhaps the nation's, most successful. He rapidly acquired an impressive roster of clients: the Atlantic Richfield Company; United Air Lines; the Travelers Insurance Company; the Flying Tiger Corporation; Dart Industries Inc.; the Marriott Corporation; MCA Inc., which produces perhaps 40% of prime-time TV shows; and the California Federal Savings and Loan Assn...
...President for reelection. His decision sent shock waves through the already demoralized Democratic Party, since Klein has considerable clout with other Jews. "I used to have trouble finding any supporters when I walked into the Hillcrest Country Club," says Taft Schreiber, executive vice president of show-biz conglomerate MCA and a major Nixon fund raiser. "Now it's like everyone has had a revelation. People come rushing up to me and say: 'I just want to tell you how I'm going to vote...
...incredible skein of dramatic rights, record rights, concert rights, managers' cuts, royalties, subsidiaries and merchandisers' rights (buttons, T shirts) holds Superstar together. But infringement suits and restraining orders, just to keep people from pirating words and music, have cost MCA and Producer-Manager Stigwood $125,000 in lawyers' fees already this year. Their record to date: 15 court actions, dozens of unauthorized shows closed down. With the success of the original LP, Stigwood moved toward developing a stage version and launching touring concerts less than a year ago, only to find that he had been beaten to the punch...
Such infringements were mostly overlooked, especially at first. But as real pirate shows proliferated, MCA and Stigwood swung into action. Even an order of nuns in Sydney, Australia, were smitten like false prophets for planning their own staged production. "Like all Christians, these nuns believe Jesus Christ is theirs," explained Sydney Impresario Harry M. Miller, sternly adding, "What they are forgetting is that there is such a thing as copyright...
Beyond, or below, the reach of Stigwood and MCA, the cash and carrying on over Jesus as an exploitable product continues briskly. Declaring that romantic films are through for now, Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet] has just announced that he is planning what he calls a "factual" film, to be called The Assassination of Christ. "This decade should be one of spiritual awakening," continues Zeffirelli, "not even a movie director should ignore it." Among those not ignoring it are the Pop and head shops offering Jesus Christ jockey shorts. And for the ladies: Jesus Christ bikinis. A radio...