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Instead of keeling over, Clinton went on to prove as few candidates ever have the truth of baseball mogul Branch Rickey's observation that "luck is the residue of design." And design is indeed the word: careful planning going back many years enabled the Governor to position himself adroitly even before his official entry into the race and to develop a strategy both for capitalizing on his breaks and for overcoming the assaults on his character and trustworthiness that, several times, nearly...
Norman Lear, the TV mogul and co-founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, is a fan, sort of. "Real passion is at such a premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood...
...Philip Glass met Phil Spector . . . well, they'd probably just stare at each other. But it's conceivable that the composer and the pop mogul might collaborate on a 73-minute 12-second postmodern song cycle you could dance or dream to. That's the symphonic rock album Moodfood, by the British duo MOODSWINGS (percussionist J.F.T. Hood and producer Grant Showbiz). The set punctuates its disco-liturgical luxuriance with ethereal vocals by Chrissie Hynde and a pulsar guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Mixing rap and classical and everything in between -- and then remixing it to suggest a Top 40 radio...
...Brock sees his dreams of quitting become more unrealistic, he turns to his boyhood pal Mel, who is now a musicbusiness mogul with a gift for packaging anyone as a superstar. Mel comes up with the insanely effective idea of turning Brock into a star so that his books will sell...
...media finally becomes its own biggest celebrity, confessing and absolving itself in an orgy of publicity the way rock stars write tell-all autobiographies. But none of it is really taken seriously. Mel isn't an exploitative mogul, but instead a madcap guy who's a good friend to Brock. And Brock himself is tempted to regard this media catastrophe as half windfall, half big joke. What the hell, it's only a show. And the show must go on. In fact, it never ends...