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Last week Disney held firm and said it would release Kundun as planned next year. "Disney's potential business in China is infinite," says Peter Dekom, a former show-biz attorney who advises media companies operating in Asia. "But Disney had to decide whether it wants to facilitate business or stand for free speech...
AILING. MERV GRIFFIN, 71, show-biz magnate and ex-talk show host; from prostate cancer; in Los Angeles...
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...
...Jamie Foxx Show (WB) A show-biz aspirant takes a job in his family's hotel...
...book offers candid assessments of the show's less stellar moments as well. Koppel, we learn, never liked the idea of doing a show on comedian John Belushi's death--especially when the only show-biz "friend" of his the show managed to book was Milton Berle. Koppel's choice for the all-time worst Nightline is a 1985 interview with Le Duc Tho, in which the former North Vietnamese negotiator rattled on interminably (as fellow guest Henry Kissinger fumed) because his interpreter refused to convey Koppel's desperate efforts to stop him. A rare guest who Koppel says...