Word: warner
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Subtitled Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse (a reference to an Afro-Caribbean street gang in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Douglas Century's Street Kingdom (Warner Books; 415 pages; $25) charts a turbid interracial friendship between two ambitious young...
...free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, who went through an acrimonious divorce from Warner Bros. Records, released a brilliant, ambitious five-CD boxed set titled Crystal Ball and peddled it on his website (for delivery by mail, like Brooke's CD). According to his spokesperson, the set sold 250,000 copies online (at $50 apiece), and the Artist says 1998 was his "most profitable year...
...example, the 74-year-old actor related his own experience grappling with Time-Warner over the release of rapper Ice-T's album "Cop Killer...
Heston, a former Time-Warner shareholder, was outraged by the lyrics "celebrating ambushing and murdering police officers," and attended the annual stockholders' meeting to "simply read the full lyrics of 'Cop Killer,' every vicious, vulgar, instructional word...
...hoopla over his objections to the album, Heston claimed, will "keep him from ever being offered another film by Warner Brothers or getting a good review from Time magazine...