Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before Shakur signed with Knight, his records were relatively thoughtful; his first release for Death Row, All Eyez on Me, was filled with the label's typical violent posturing. But Kidada Jones, Shakur's fiance (and daughter of show-biz mogul Quincy Jones), says that before his death Shakur was changing his ways--going out less, staying in more, watching movies like Les Miserables on laser disc. "Instead of going to strip clubs, he'd be cooking," says Jones. Shakur planned to move away from music and into acting, Jones adds. She says his last recording, Makiaveli, completed before...
...days ago the wacky-haired mogul of boxing promotion gave a rousing talk at Harvard Law School in which he urged his audience to "make a difference" in doing away with racism...
...just of the story's source and tawdry sexual details but of its timing. The Star's scoop was first made public on the very day of President Clinton's acceptance speech, in a front-page story in the New York Post, a newspaper owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (Murdoch once owned the Star too, but he sold it in 1990 to the company that also owns the National Enquirer, its chief competitor...
...once you pass 50. BARBRA STREISAND has a new beau--and he's even from her generation. He's JAMES BROLIN, 56, the hirsute hunk of Marcus Welby, M.D. and Hotel. The two were introduced at a party given by Streisand's onetime hairdresser-lover turned Hollywood mogul Jon Peters, according to Variety's old-time celeb columnist Army Archerd. For a Streisand beau, the twice-divorced Brolin is pretty low profile (remember Andre Agassi, Don Johnson, Peter Jennings and that guy who guest-stars on Friends, Elliott Gould?). It's probably only coincidence that this news broke just weeks...
Last year some 300 of these low-rent films were released direct-to-video--more than the number made by the Hollywood majors--and they returned about $200 million to the producers. Those numbers wouldn't make a mogul drool; a single studio smash like Aladdin made more in video than all DTVs put together...