Word: wenner
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...Winners STEVEN SPIELBERG Director fulfills dream, earns bachelor's degree?33 years late. Inspired, Mr. T vows to complete remedial woodwork class he flunked RINGO STARR Decidedly fourth Beatle signs new record deal, causing Jan Wenner to hurriedly crash Rolling Stone's new "RINGO RULES!" cover JAN PETER BALKENENDE Harry Potter lookalike voted likely next Dutch PM. He's the lovable, squeezable, bespectacled new face of hard-right European politics Losers GEORGE W. BUSH President criticized for use of 9/11 photos in campaign fund raising. Hey, the "Bush Cowering in Air Force One Toilet" shot should be popular PRINCESS METTE...
Make a few phone calls, and you'll easily find endorsements. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner calls Almost Famous "probably the most accurate and heartfelt rock-'n'-roll movie I've ever seen." Tom Cruise, who has already seen Crowe's movie twice, raves about "the depth he has in his characters." Full disclosure: both men are friends of the writer-director. Cruise starred in Jerry Maguire, of course, and has signed on for Crowe's next film, Vanilla Sky, a thriller co-starring Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz. Wenner's thumbs up is even more suspect. Not only...
...Rolling Stone, where Crowe felt more like a groupie than a critic. "I always remember that us-against-the-world thing," he says, recalling his days with the bands one afternoon in his office in Santa Monica, Calif., "the way it felt to sweep into a hotel lobby." Says Wenner: "He was such a fan. Artists gave him access because of that." Just as Miller pursues Stillwater's members for a cover story, Crowe wrangled Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin for the cover of Rolling Stone in 1975. But several rock heavyweights are reflected in Stillwater...
...evening started with a lengthy introduction by the three entertainment industry moguls who conceived and produced the event. Michael Douglas brought on what he called the "Three Divas" - VH1 chief John Sykes, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner and main instigator Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax Films. The trio each spoke of their passionate commitment to the Democratic cause, before Weinstein brought on the Gores and Liebermans to start the evening...