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...PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (MCA). The cat's meow: Paul Gemignani and the Royal Philharmonic Pops step lively through starlit arrangements of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megamusicals...
...million in 1986), and 3.3 billion were rented (up from 2.2 billion the year before). Newly minted cassettes of Hollywood classics are flooding the stores, and TV ad campaigns now alert buyers and renters to the release of recent hits. Notes a bullish Louis Feola, senior vice president of MCA Home Video: "There is a generation of kids growing up who do not remember life without a cassette...
...titles available in America. "We say, 'Got a turntable at home? That doesn't record either.' " Despite its clear technical superiority and the fact that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early '80s, which led consumers to the misconception that the technology had gone bust. Pioneer Electronics, which manufactures virtually all the laser players sold in the U.S., soldiered on alone, going into the software business as well, but discs remained mostly...
...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...
...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...