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...producers accepting cash for the casual positioning of a particular brand of soda or make of sports car in the background of a scene. But now the concept has leaped off the screen into other areas of life, often catching consumers unaware. Celebrities such as Lauren Bacall and Kathleen Turner appear on talk shows and praise prescription drugs without disclosing that they have been paid by the drugmakers. Marketers give expensive sneakers, colognes or even cars to young trendsetters on college campuses, at the fringes of show biz or at hot nightclubs with the understanding that they will...
...music giant EMI) has been in financial straits since Aaliyah's death, and the executives who allegedly made the promises, former EMI chief executive Ken Berry and his wife, former Virgin vice-chairman Nancy Berry, have left the company. (They did not return phone calls seeking a comment.) Nevertheless, Turner says, she is outraged at Virgin's behavior. "We worked 24/7 to get the bodies out as expeditiously as possible. We had to bring in extra staff. People worked on their day off." There has not been "one word of thanks to anyone," she says. Turner still holds the official...
...death of R.-and-B. singer Aaliyah in a small-plane crash last August was a sad event for everyone in the music world, but it has had a particularly bad aftertaste for one small business: Butlers' Funeral Homes and Crematorium in Nassau, the Bahamas. Loretta Turner, the funeral-home director, told TIME that Virgin Records, the singer's label, is reneging on a verbal agreement to pay the costs of preparation and transport of the bodies of Aaliyah and eight members of her entourage who died in the crash. The mortuary...
...Virgin has indicated to us that they will not honor the agreement," says Turner, who has even appealed for help to the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, to no avail. Robert Spragg, an attorney who is representing Aaliyah's parents, Michael and Diane Haughton, in a lawsuit against Virgin and other defendants stemming from the crash, says the Haughtons were also told by Virgin executives that they would be reimbursed for their funeral expenses, but have received nothing. A Virgin representative declined to comment...
...Black and white did mingle in the studio, not physically but in their overlapping styles and choice of material. Turner's piano work, backing Jackie Brenston on Phillips's first hit, "Rocket '88'," has some of the boogie-woogie triplets, rolling rhythm down low and bang-it-till-it-breaks urgency on high that were later identified with Lewis. In September 1954, Parker recorded his own "Mystery Train," a spectral blues song that has sax-man James Wheeler evoking a train's mournful whistle and Floyd Murphy's guitar providing the chugging wheels. Ten months later Elvis covered it, speeding...