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I am a huge fan of Dionne Warwick: her Bacharach-David hits from the ’60s are among the classiest pop of the last 50 years. I also like her just fine personally, having DJ’d a children’s party at her house in Beverly Hills in the ’80s. It doesn’t change my opinion …

Forbes interviews Spielberg, Katzenberg, and Geffenberg, I mean Geffen. Spielberg: Forbes interviewed Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks’ de facto chief creative officer, at Amblin, the mini-studio that Universal Studios built for him on the corner of its Burbank lot, and discussed his work and the future of the company. The following is …

Penelope Patsuris thinks the EMI-Warner Music Group talks do nothing to deal with the future: There is no doubt that if EMI does end up taking a majority stake in Warner Music, the new entity will have money-saving economies of scale and an extensive music library. Warner Music’s troubled parent …

Stratfor-boy thinks the bombs will fly this weekend: A veteran intelligence analyst says Washington almost surely will choose a full-out war against Iraq, as soon as this weekend over the moonless Arab desert. With that first strike, says Strategic Forecasting founder George Friedman, President Bush will have lodged the centerpiece …

Through a discussion with my mother-in-law, a recent devotee of Buddhism, I am coming to understand the rationale of the hard-core peace philosophy (an odd juxtaposition of words, I know). The bottom line for no-war-period people is that “war begets war,” and that by refusing to indulge in the urge …

Deranged demagogue Dennis Kucinich. Item: A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit that sought to bar President Bush from launching an attack against Iraq without a congressional declaration of war. …. U.S. District Judge Joseph Tauro ruled the case could not go forward without “clear, resolute conflict” between the …

I guess it is human nature to try to prevent the fire that has already devastated, to fight the last war, to fix the shuttle after it has crashed. I am certain something like this is going on in your town as well: Workers from the Cleveland fire marshal’s office …

More songs about guitars and gurls: been playing a lot of recent discs from the current crop of pop-‘n’-roll bands, so let’s weigh in on three of ’em. Geezers of the batch have to be Supergrass – now on their third release, Life on Other Planets (Island), an altogether solid …

Controversial bill enabling vigilante hacking may not be revived: Rep. Howard L. Berman said he may abandon his controversial proposal to help Hollywood battle Internet piracy, in part because of complaints from an unexpected source: Hollywood. Berman (D-Van Nuys) introduced a bill in July to give movie studios, record companies …

We don’t make these names up: a woman named Bush is Paul Reubens’ spokesperson regarding porno charges, and now Representative Flake is decrying federal support for the Grammy Foundation: The GRAMMY® Foundation, a non-profit arm of the Recording Academy, has a challenging responsibility to bring national attention to important issues …