Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the Time Warner shareholders' meeting last month, Tucker and Bennett aired their grievances directly in a testy meeting with company executives, among them Levin and Fuchs. It started badly: when company officials refused Tucker's request that they read aloud the lyrics of Big Man with a Gun, a song by the alternative-rock group Nine Inch Nails (sample: "Maybe I'll put a hole in your head/ You know, just for the f---- of it"), Tucker angrily walked out of the meeting for a time. Bennett's direct-as-a-bullet charges ("Are you folks morally disabled?") were...
...Dole attack was in some ways even more brutal -- and potentially more dangerous. Unlike Bennett, Dole is a powerful politician, the majority leader of the Senate; at a time when Congress is considering communications legislation that could drastically affect Time Warner's cable businesses, Levin & Co. could be forgiven for taking his speech as a direct threat of legislative retribution. Warner Music officials privately worry that Washington politics could dictate the corporation's response...
Those who know Levin, however, consider that unlikely to be the decisive factor. More probably, it will be mounting pressure from-and increasing attention to-what appears to be a very real clamor on behalf of common sense and public sensibilities. "It's a real moment for Time Warner to decide what it is," says a senior Warner Music executive. The likeliest outcome at the moment, though, is that his division will not be entirely pleased by the answer...
...classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...
...Angeles to knock some of its pre-eminent citizens at a fund raiser. The presidential candidate criticized entertainment moguls for producing what he called "nightmares of depravity"-films, television and music filled with sex and brutality that "push the limits of decency." Dole took particular aim at Time Warner (TIME's parent company) for its dissemination of violence-laced gangsta-rap music...