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...gentleman warrior. Finding his picture in distribution limbo after Universal Pictures refused to release his film (which he had shot according to the approved script and delivered on budget), Gilliam went public with a full-page plea in Daily Variety to the president of Universal's parent company, MCA: "Dear Sid Sheinberg: When are you going to release my film, Brazil...
...offered to come to the rescue with a higher price if the company wanted a merger. After CBS fought off Turner, GE turned its attention to RCA, which also feared a hostile takeover bid. Perhaps to make itself less vulnerable, RCA had discussed a possible friendly merger with MCA, a movie and television conglomerate, but the talks broke...
...album is a financial smash for its label, MCA Records, which produced the record for just $200,000, compared with $750,000 for a typical movie sound track. Such stars as Phil Collins and Tina Turner, who contributed songs, accepted lower-than-usual fees in order to meet the budget. The record's success has inspired MCA Records to consider a sequel. Meanwhile, fans of the palmy program will not run out of music. The show's stars, Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson, are each working on a solo album...
...show's impact been limited to the TV screen. This month MCA Records will release a Miami Vice album containing the show's theme music, several songs used in last season's shows, and three new numbers recorded for the coming season by Glenn Frey, Chaka Khan and Grandmaster Melle Mel. Meanwhile, the show's tropical-chic fashions (especially Don Johnson's typical ensemble of Italian sport coat, T shirt, white linen pants and slip-on shoes) have begun to catch on. "The show has taken Italian men's fashion and spread it to mass America," says Kal Ruttenstein...
...Lewis McA. Branscomb (Ph.D '50) who will sit on the board of Overseers until 1990, works for one South Africa-related company and sits on the boards of two others--all of which Harvard owns stock in. He is a vice president and the chief scientist at IBM, which has, according to IBM spokesman Michael Dutton, 1914 employees--including 286 Blacks--at its South African sales and service offices. IBM's South African business represented less than 1 percent of its 1984 revenues of $45.9 billion. Dutton says. He says no IBM equipment, "to our knowledge," is used...