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Gast eventually won rights to the 400 hours of footage, but could find no investors until, in 1986, David Sonenberg, a manager of rock talent, volunteered. After transferring the deteriorating film stock, Gast and filmmaker Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) completed the film in 1994, hoping to promote it with a sound track CD comprising music from the festival stars (James Brown, B.B. King, Miriam Makeba) and new groups like the Fugees, who laid down a rap track over Ali's incantatory doggerel. But no one wanted to distribute the movie--until it won the documentary prize...
...Alternative rock has become Top 40 rock," says Jason Markey, an artists' representative for Arista Records. "Top 40 rock has always been disposable, and that's where alternative rock is now leaning." David Sonenberg, who manages the Fugees, Joan Osborne and other music acts, says too many record companies have signed too many one-hit alternative acts and thus diluted the quality of the genre (it's an old musical story--just see Tom Hanks' period comedy on the subject, That Thing You Do). "With a lot of the music, it's hard to distinguish one band from another," complains...
...Nina E. Sonenberg...
News Editor for this Issue: D. Joseph Menn '87 Night Editors: Victoria G. T. Bassetti '86-'87 Joseph F. Kahn '87 Matthew A. Saal '87 Nina E. Sonenberg '88 Copy Editor: Jennifer M. Frey '90 Feature Editor: Robin L. Alpers '87 Editorial Editor: John Ross '87 Sports Editors: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Jonathan F. Putnam '88 Photo Editor: Bub-Joo S. Lee '88 Business Editor: Brent J. Martin...
News Editors for this Issue: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Night Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Stephen L. Lichtman '87 Brooke A. Masters '89 Shari Rudavsky '88 Nina E. Sonenberg '88 Thomas J. Winslow '87 John C. Yoo '89 Copy Editor: Allison L. Jernow '89 Editorial Editor: Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Features Editor: David S. Hilzenrath '87 Sports Editors: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Photo Editor: Mihail S. Lari '89 Business Editor: Robert Q. McManus...