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...January 24 letter to LeVine, Witzel'slawyer, James Pollock, writes that the Decemberminutes "bring disrepute upon the name, reputationand standing of Professor Witzel both as a teacherand as an administrator. Accordingly, they fallinto the category of libel....The possibility ofmalice on your part is not to be ruled out giventhe unnecessarily hostile, unprofessional andnon-collegial demeanor you have shown in any faceto face dealings with Professor Witzel and thefact that your minutes omitted material presentedat the meeting, the inclusion of which would havelent balance to the record...
...Pollock wrote that he "call[ed] upon [LeVine]to avoid unnecessary expense and other adverseconsequences from litigation by resolving thismatter by circulating to each person who receiveda copy" of the minutes a statement apologizing toWitzel...
...Geffen's record holdings, and a folio of hit films, most of them produced by Steven Spielberg. And at first, Japanese-American relations were smooth. Then some of the Matsushita executives who were on good terms with MCA president Sidney J. Sheinberg were fired. Says MCA movie chief Tom Pollock: "I believe if the Matsushita administration hadn't changed, they would not have sold the company...
Last spring Universal chief Tom Pollock declared, "Waterworld will not cost any more than $65 million." That number may have a sacred resonance at Universal, since it was the production cost for the studio's top hit of the '90s, Jurassic Park. And here Sheinberg and Pollock may slip into melancholia: virtually all Universal's megamovies of the past 20 years-including Jaws and Hollywood's all-time champ, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial-were directed or produced by Steven Spielberg, who last fall decided to form an independent multimedia company with fellow Poo-Bahs Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...
...there are degrees of neglect. Nobody could call the Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline overlooked. Not when his pictures have sold for a million dollars and up. Not with his signature style recognizable in an eye blink, the black girderlike slashes on the white ground. But compared with Jackson Pollock, who has been a household word -- well, in some households anyway -- for the past quarter-century, Kline is positively obscure. It's like comparing Sal Mineo with James Dean. Both were in the movie Rebel Without a Cause, but only one of them car-smashed his way into permanent Valhalla...