Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artists last year; the Ecole de Paris remains the most talked about, the most museum-represented "school" in the world. But there are no revolutions, no barricades. There are no new leaders to rank with or even near Picasso and Chagall and Braque. There is a group of talented artists who paint in styles ranging from realistic to expressionistic, from primitive to symbolic (see color pages). Among the best: ¶ Alfred Manessier, 47 (TIME, Oct. 24, 1955), who was shaken out of his surrealist visions by World War II nightmares, spent four days in 1942 in a Trappist monastery that...
Most Americans have never heard of a huge and mysterious corporation called the Music Corp. of America. The mystery is intentional on the part of M.C.A.; it abhors publicity. Yet it is the nation's top talent agency in the publicity-loving world of entertainment, and is one of the most potent forces in determining what the U.S. sees on TV and movie screens-the General Motors of the entertainment world. Last week the Justice Department was investigating M.C.A. and its smaller rival. William Morris, which together reportedly control 80% of U.S. TV talent. The question: Are they...
...M.C.A.'s only asset," says one officer, "is its executive talent." Little worried about the antitrust investigation, M.C.A. officials argue that their giant does not control talent, is actually controlled by the stars. Said one top officer blandly: "We're only employees...
Just Helpers. Much of M.C.A.'s power is due to its breadth: its talent covers so many fields that it can offer a complete package for a movie or TV show: star, script, and sometimes even financing. M.C.A. makes much of being simply a service organization, brags of the number of executives it has servicing clients, like a college with a low teacher-student ratio. Its executives are paid on an incentive plan; senior executives get a flat $100 a week, plus a bonus-often huge-based on M.C.A.'s performance that year. Founder Stein still owns...
...book's best story, The Artist at Work, is a corrosively witty account of the rise and fall of a minor talent. Gilbert Jonas is a modest Parisian painter who trusts his "star." A dealer discovers him and he is beset by fame. New friends while away his afternoons "begging Jonas to go on working . . . for they weren't Philistines and knew the value of an artist's time." Disciples appear, but not to learn anything ("one became a disciple for the disinterested pleasure of teaching one's master...