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...White House was crammed with glamorati three weeks ago for a state dinner honoring Boris Yeltsin. Few noticed that among the visitors from Hollywood were three men -- director Steven Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and ousted Disney movie chief Jeffrey Katzenberg -- who between courses were giddily planning to merge their talent and clout in a new entertainment company. "We're in tuxedos talking about a brand new studio," Spielberg recalls, "and just across from us there's Yeltsin and Bill Clinton talking about disarming the world of nuclear weapons...
...plans of three media mavens wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. But last week's word that the entertainment industry's most successful director, most revered studio chief and most creative billionaire were forming their own company smote Hollywood with nuclear force. Spielberg will fold his unit, Amblin, into the new organization (though he may still direct outside projects). Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot. And Geffen will make music make money...
...call a taxi to the White House." Billionaire record company mogul David Geffen. Speaking to former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg about plans to form a new multi-media studio with Steven Spielberg. Geffen was staying in the Lincoln Bedroom as President Clinton's guest. Quoted in The New York Times (October...
...think Jeffrey should have been given anything he asked for, based on his mountain of accomplishments at Disney," says Steven Spielberg, who is co- owner with Katzenberg of Dive, the scalding-hot new Century City eatery. ! "But I don't think he's feeling bitter about it. He's looking forward to an exciting future...
...Ring's thrilling embrace. Among Wagner's many other theatrical gifts was his ability to build a climax at the end of every act, so that the audience is continually swept into a musical catharsis. Movie scores -- like those by John Williams for Star Wars and several Spielberg epics -- avidly try to duplicate the master's visceral thrills but always fall short...