Word: mca
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cineplex Odeon expanded into distributing such films as Prince's Sign o' the Times and Paul Newman's The Glass Menagerie. A TV production arm will make 41 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The company's Northfork division will finance five films produced by Robert Redford. In partnership with MCA Inc., which owns 49% of Cineplex Odeon, Drabinsky will help run Universal's proposed Florida theme park. Hollywood, star struck by the 39- year-old whiz kid, is whispering that Drabinsky may succeed Sidney Sheinberg, another tough customer, as president and chief operating officer of MCA. "I'm not saying...
...said that with lyrics added, they would be surefire pop hits. A year later another publisher said, "That's not pop, that's country." So Jarvis took his family and left Los Angeles for Nashville, where he burnished his tunes some more before playing them for the folks at MCA Records. "That's not country," they said, "that's jazz...
...even know what it is anymore," says the composer-performer, but at least MCA signed him up. So far, it has released two inventive, ebullient Jarvis albums, hedging the corporate bets by including them in a series being marketed as New Age music. Jarvis' lilting, funky compositions do not fit very snugly in this category either. But if New Age is background music for fern bars, Jarvis brings to the genre a welcome whiff of down home and the backwoods...
...funds for the party. So the Senator and his wife traveled to Hollywood last month for a not entirely harmonious gathering with music-industry executives. "The Gores looked on it as an opportunity to clear the air," Press Secretary Arlie Schardt says of the luncheon, which was organized by MCA Music Entertainment Chief Irving Azoff and Lawyer Mickey Kantor. Nevertheless, the Gores did not win over many new fans. Says Miles Copeland, manager of Singer Sting: "I was most unimpressed...
Something Wild. (MCA) Sound-track albums are usually a flat-out marketing ploy to give movies a spurious Top 40 identity. This one is different, as kicky and eccentric as Jonathan Demme's inverted thriller (starring Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith), which it accompanies. Hearing these ten tunes is like checking into a padded cell inside a Wurlitzer. Listen to David Byrne's lyric for his salsa-inflected opening song, Loco de Amor ("Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album...