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...decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple CD titled Emancipation, the first in his new deal with EMI. While the album's overall import falls well short of that of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, it does...
...also resolved his anger toward Warner Bros. He calls his 1992 contract with the company "a learning experience." The Artist wanted to release more than one CD a year; Warner Bros. thought that would dilute his work. The company also released two CDs of Prince material against his will--The Black Album (1994), a sharp-tongued CD that parodied rap and that Prince had famously shelved; and the uneven Come (1994), a collection of outtakes. The Artist was not amused...
Fret not over ROBERT E. ("Teddy") TURNER IV, who was downsized by his dad Ted Turner, when Ted's biz merged with Time Warner. ("You're toast," dad said over dinner.) Teddy has two new jobs: one at his own company, which is developing an enhanced form of cable delivery; another with Forest Hills Cos., a nascent entertainment concern. He may one day even offer his pa some competition...
Disney usually releases an animated feature for the holiday season, but this year the studio has a live-action remake of a cartoon classic, 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close as the dognapping Cruella DeVil. Warner Bros. steps into the vacated slot with Space Jam, a $90 million mix of animation and live action that teams two pop-culture potentates, Michael ("Air") Jordan and Bugs ("Hare") Bunny...
...Democrat] John Kerry Mass. $8,333,197 [*] [Democrat] Robert Torricelli N.J. $8,269,457 [*] [Democrat] Mark Warner Va. $8,237,073 [Republican] Guy Milner Ga. $7,638,652 [Republican] Dick Zimmer N.J. $7,595,374 [Democrat] Harvey Gantt N.C. $7,057,717 [Republican] Jesse Helms N.C. $6,725,515 [*] [Republican] William Weld Mass. $6,639,759 [Democrat] Carl Levin Mich. $5,730,793 [*] [Democrat] Paul Wellstone Minn...