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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mead; the disc of 2001 was personally . overseen by Stanley Kubrick and includes almost a thousand pages of essays and production memos. "We're a significant part of an as yet insignificant business," says Voyager co-founder Robert Stein. But other companies are fast picking up on his lead. MCA's pristine disc of the Anthony Mann western classic Winchester .73 contains a beguiling chat with the film's star, James Stewart. And Image's release of Platoon includes an impressive, intense interview with director Oliver Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Archaeology by Laser Light | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...company once called Hitsville, U.S.A., which produced a generation of singing superstars from Stevie Wonder to the Supremes, hit it big in pictures? That question is producing a heart-thumping atmosphere at Motown Productions these days. Founder and Chairman Berry Gordy, who sold his legendary record label to MCA last June for $61 million, is now plunging his company into the equally high-risk field of movies and television. In doing so, Gordy, 59, is banking on the talents of his ace protege, Suzanne de Passe, 42, the president of Motown Productions and one of the most promising new mini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitsville Goes Hollywood | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...apparent extortion scheme suggests that the current intrigue between the Mob and Hollywood may be every bit as spicy as it was in Lansky's heyday. MCA, Inc., the conglomerate seeking video rights to the movie, has suspended Eugene Giaquinto, president of its Home Entertainment Group, following reports that the FBI was investigating his possible ties to organized crime. For at least a year, FBI agents have been tapping the phones of Giaquinto and others in the industry who were heard discussing contacts with mobsters like New York's Gambino-family boss, John Gotti. The eavesdroppers have listened to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mafia: Seems Like Old Crimes | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

JARVIS: WHATEVER WORKS (MCA). Jazz, rock, pop, country and New Age smoothly reconciled by an adept keyboardist with a knack for graceful melody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '88: Music | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

LYLE LOVETT: PONTIAC (MCA). Quirky, haunting roadhouse tunes with an underhanded comic flair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '88: Music | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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