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Ironically, all the scandal has had little adverse effect on Jackson's finances. Jackson's personal publicist announced a new agreement between the superstar's ATV Music Publishing catalogue (which retains many of the Beatles songs) and recorded-music giant EMI. The deal will reportedly make Jackson $90 million richer. Meanwhile, a video compilation called Dangerous: The Short Films has just been released. According to one technician who worked on the compilation, there were serious discussions earlier this fall of cutting out every scene in the video that featured Michael playing around with little kids, but that never happened...
...intense among cultural institutions, charities and the media, which increasingly earmark jobs for Hispanics, Asians or other target groups. After the San Diego Opera was cited by a state arts agency for not having enough Hispanic employees, it set aside for only Hispanic candidates its next opening for a publicist. The September convention of the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association turned into a recruitment center for major national media seeking to diversify newsrooms. Insiders say the National Book Awards and even the Pulitzer Prizes have at times bowed to political correctness rather than pure merit, seeking to honor blacks...
After a week tracking her Random House publicist down (who for some reason kept confusing "Molly Ivins" and "Maya Angelou"), I was prepared for an interview conducted with a secretary in the room and a security guard outside the door. I should have known better. This, after all, was the woman fired from the New York Times for describing a community chicken-killing festival as "a gang-pluck...
Ivins answered her own hotel phone (if she has a publicist travelling with her, he or she was nowhere in sight) and took off her shoes as soon as she sat down. The one thing surprising about Ivins is her voice. Her columns shout; she speaks so softly that the tape recorder could barely pick up her voice...
...lives to make movies," says film critic David Chute, who produced the new laser-disc set of The Killer and observed Woo close up as unit publicist on Hard Target. "He's without ulterior motives, so the set was remarkably free of backbiting, infighting or ego fits." Woo was unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says...