Word: mca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the voices raised against the film belong to people who have not yet seen it. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli called the movie "damaging to the image of Christ. He cannot be made the object of low fantasies." Fundamentalist Leader Jerry Falwell called for a boycott against MCA, Universal's parent company; all MCA products, which include Grosset & Dunlap publishers, Spencer Gifts and Motown Records; and any theater that shows the film. Said Falwell: "Neither the label 'fiction' nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...
...head off further furor or perhaps even cash in on it, Universal decided last week to move the opening up from Sept. 23 to Aug. 12. Says Tom Pollock, chairman of MCA's motion picture group: "The best thing that can be done for The Last Temptation of Christ at this time is to make it available to the American people and allow them to draw their own conclusions, based on fact not fallacy." But Tim Penland, a born-again marketing expert once hired by Universal to placate conservative critics and now a critic himself, believes the six-week jump...
...always be a country singer because I talk like this," he says in a striking Panhandle rasp. "What I'm doing is country and rock, and I don't think they are mutually exclusive terms." It is no easy matter to convince everyone, though. Guitar Town, his seminal 1986 MCA album, was full of great tunes -- Springsteen on a two-lane blacktop -- and should have settled all conflicts of style. But, he reports, "I'm at war with the record company on the West Coast about using steel guitar and mandolin, and I'm at war with Nashville over drums...
...delicate but deliberate. She started writing in grade school, she says, "mainly out of self-defense, 'cause I was so lousy at guitar." She admires the work of such fiction writers as Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers, and in tunes like Love Wore a Halo (on her strong- selling MCA album Little Love Affairs), Griffith can be heard trying to chase that same magnolia-and-nightshade muse to ground...
...what I want with my music, so I get away with murder there." Raised in a Lutheran family outside Houston, Lovett, whose gentle eyes are set into the lean, long-jawed face of a back- alley shiv artist, acts straight but makes intrepid music. Listen to the recent Pontiac (MCA), and you can really hear him cut loose in tunes like If I Had a Boat: "The mystery masked man was smart/ He got himself a Tonto/ 'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free/ But Tonto he was smarter/ And one day said kemo sabe/ Kiss...