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  David Geffen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geffen, who is openly gay, was the subject of a persistent but false 1990s rumor that he had married actor Keanu Reeves.
Geffen is a prominent philanthropist, renowned for his support to medical research, AIDS organizations, the arts and theatre.
Geffen's Malibu home on the Pacific Coast Highway has been a battlefront in an ongoing struggle between property owners and beachgoers over access to public beaches in front of private residences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Geffen   (400 words)

  
 Geffen Records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geffen Records was founded by David Geffen in 1975 (after having founded Asylum Records in the 1970s).
Geffen was originally part of Warner Bros. Records until it was purchased by MCA in 1990 and is now part of Universal Music Group.
In 2003, Geffen was merged with MCA Records.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geffen_Records   (84 words)

  
 GEFFEN, David : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Not suited for anything in particular, Geffen began by fibbing on his employment application to get a job at the William Morris booking agency; the agency was a good place to learn how to be a shark but was losing touch (he didn't stay long) and within 30 years he became a show-business billionaire.
Geffen was enchanted with Laura Nyro, who had flopped at a Monterey Pop Festival; he kept her out of big venues until she had a following, then sold out Carnegie Hall twice.
But Geffen was the label boss, part of the management company and handling the publishing; it all came a bit unstuck when he sold Asylum to WEA for $7m.
www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/g/G19.HTM   (616 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - David Geffen
Geffen became a talent agent and focused on the emerging rock-music business (see Rock Music), representing groups such as Buffalo Springfield and Peter, Paul and Mary, and singers Janis Joplin and Laura Nyro.
Geffen eventually became Nyro's manager, a partnership that revived Nyro's career and made Geffen a millionaire at the age of 27.
Geffen later attributed his early retirement to a mistaken diagnosis of cancer, and he started Geffen Records in 1980.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580474/David_Geffen.html   (390 words)

  
 Geffen Is Said to Be Angered by Biography
Geffen abruptly broke off contact with the author and said he was writing a salacious book and not a serious one.
Geffen has told friends that cooperating in the book project was the biggest mistake of his life.
Geffen is seen as dazzling in his ability to spot talented entertainers -- whether it was Jackson Browne, the Eagles or Tom Cruise -- as well as ruthless in his pursuit of money, sometimes at the expense of friends.
partners.nytimes.com /library/books/030600geffen-biography.html   (1536 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Celebrity news / Geffen allows access to Malibu property   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The pathway next to Geffen's villa was opened this week after he turned over the gate keys to a nonprofit organization assigned to manage the property, Daniel Olivas, a state deputy attorney general, said Thursday.
Geffen had agreed to build a public walkway in 1983 in exchange for permission to remodel his Malibu mansion, but he refused to open the walkway's gate.
Geffen and the city of Malibu sued in July 2002, alleging the California Coastal Commission failed to conduct a proper environmental analysis for public beach access and that Access for All had limited resources and no experience in managing such a property.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/04/16/geffen_allows_access_to_malibu_property   (358 words)

  
 Geffen Cancer Center - Articles About the Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Geffen and his carefully chosen staff strive for excellence in medical oncology, as well as in complementary therapies that offer sustenance and balance to a comprehensive treatment plan.
Geffen believes that patients and their loved ones deserve the personal attention of a physician who is willing to listen to their questions, help them find answers and, ultimately, be their coach as they discover their own inner strengths and resolve.
In light of this, in 1998 the Geffen Cancer Foundation, Inc. was established to help meet the mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of cancer patients, family members, and friends, and to support scientific research.
www.geffencenter.com /article1a.html   (1087 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1999 | 03/99 | Tom Brook | Geffen biography stirs Tinseltown
Geffen stopped cooperating with Tom King halfway through his research, because he felt that the author was compiling a salacious tell-all book rather than his stated plan to write a serious biography.
Geffen left the session grinning and turned to Mulzet and - according to the book - said "I did that for you", implying that he had given the president advice largely to impress his partner.
Geffen has reportedly told friends that cooperating on the book was one of the worst mistakes of his life.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/03/99/tom_brook/675711.stm   (746 words)

  
 ABC News: Beach Access Opens Near Geffen Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Geffen, who had sought to bar public access to the area, dropped his legal battle and on April 14 turned over the keys to the accessway to the group.
Geffen had agreed to build a public walkwayin 1983 in exchange for permission to remodel his home, but later argued the beach lacked parking, lifeguards and bathroom facilities and had refused to open the gate.
Geffen built the paved walk but then refused to unlock its gates, arguing that the beach lacked necessary parking, lifeguards or restrooms to accommodate the public.
abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=796400   (488 words)

  
 Salon Books | New Geffen bio dishes up some tantrums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Geffen also bared his fangs at a 1994 meeting with his DreamWorks partners, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, former MCA executive Sid Sheinberg and Edgar Bronfman Jr., the Seagram CEO who had recently bought MCA and changed its name to Universal Studios.
At one point, Geffen confronts an early love interest, Cher, who, post-Sonny Bono, was beginning a flirtation with her future husband, musician Gregg Allman.
According to King, Geffen was struggling with his sexual identity yet wanted to marry Cher; she rebuffed him.
www.salon.com /books/log/2000/03/08/geffen   (608 words)

  
 AskMen.com - David Geffen pics
Mitchell Geffen's girlfriend's sister happened to be married to the hottest record producer of the era, the legendary Phil Spector.
Geffen's days of spotting new musical talent seemed to be over until Guns N' Roses were signed in 1987, and helped rescue the company from its "tired artist" reputation.
David Geffen is now a leading player in what has been referred to as the "new Hollywood." He has become rich and powerful beyond the wildest dreams of his youth, by pursuing a career in the industries that fueled his success.
www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/54c_david_geffen.html   (1192 words)

  
 Tom King on The Paula Gordon Show
Geffen's smart, yes, but also charming, apparently irresistible to artists who have sought the sanctuary Geffen promised (and then recoiled when that sanctuary was sold, e.g., Asylum records.) Geffen also listens.
Geffen's childhood desire to be rich shaped his life in a domain where he could make his own rules.
David Geffen is an important part of the story of popular culture in America (and thus, the world) in the last part of the 20th century.
www.paulagordon.com /shows/king   (942 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Thomas R. King
Geffen learned from his earliest days in the William Morris mailroom that he could cheat and lie his way to the top, and he has ever after lived unconstrained by traditional notions of right and wrong.
Geffen was already known worldwide as the man who had discovered Jackson Browne and the Eagles and had been the inspiration for Joni Mitchell's song "Free Man in Paris." He had produced Risky Business, the movie that made Tom Cruise a star, and had been the money-man behind such Broadway musicals as Cats and Dreamgirls.
Geffen had come to be involved with nearly every medium in the entertainment world, and he had been almost invariably successful.
www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook6648.htm   (1173 words)

  
 Knitting Circle David Geffen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1976 David Geffen was misdiagnosed with cancer of the bladder.
Geffen found it almost impossible to come to terms with his homosexuality, which he didn't profess publicly until the Nineties.
Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg announced they were building the first new film studio in Hollywood in sixty years - at a cost of $8 billion.
myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/davidgeffen.html   (1766 words)

  
 Aviv Geffen
The scene was a jubilant peace rally in the main square in Tel Aviv, where the Israeli musician was performing his ballad, "I Cry for You," in front of a cheering throng of 300,000.
Geffen, now 26, performed wearing lipstick and mascara, and was reviled by the establishment for composing songs that trashed Israel's most revered institutions.
In his teens, he was expelled from high school for scribbling subversive poetry on the walls; by 18, he had composed the first of eight best-selling albums, his moody, melodic songs dissing the military and advocating the rights of women, homosexuals and animals.
www.jewishjournal.com /old/avivgeffen.2.18.0.htm   (404 words)

  
 Jeremy Geffen - Geffen Visions International: Home
Geffen Visions International, Inc. (GVI) is dedicated to exploring multidimensional approaches to medicine, healing, wellness, and life.
Its vision is to integrate advances in science, medicine, psychology, and organizational development with the wisdom and healing traditions of the world, and to demonstrate how they can be elegantly and meaningfully expressed in all aspects of modern life.
Our programs and services are directed to those who are inspired by the opportunity to dive deeply into their innermost core on the journey of healing, transformation, and awakening, and who wish to experience and express wholeness, integrity, and authenticity in all aspects of their personal and professional lives.
www.geffenvisions.com   (291 words)

  
 Geffen steps up in second half ::
Geffen - who had scored 15 points over the last two games, including a previous high of eight points against Northeastern University - attributed his improved play to something Wolff has been advocating all season: hard play during those days no one comes to see BU play.
Earlier in the season, with Geffen still getting acclimated to the college game, Carr had to handle the ball more often, thus forcing him to create shot opportunities on his own instead of letting the offense come to him.
Now with Geffen getting a lot more than the scarce minutes he saw at the beginning of the year (21 minutes in the first four games), BU finally has a pure point guard bringing the ball up the floor and a pure scorer waiting to get it.
www.collegesports.com /sports/m-baskbl/uwire/012705abj.html   (788 words)

  
 AskMen.com - David Geffen pictures
Along the way, Geffen has made important contributions to American popular culture, and even helped alter the way business is done in the "new Hollywood." There's no denying the man's genius as visionary and business strategist.
Even though Geffen publicly acknowledged that he was gay in 1992, he has had relationships with women in attempts to lead a straight life as a younger man, to the point of almost marrying Cher back in the '70s.
Geffen's sphere of influence has stretched beyond the entertainment industry into the world of art, politics and real estate.
www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/54b_david_geffen.html   (977 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2001020214
Geffen was funny, Cher thought, and she laughed at his jokes.
Geffen was still trying to sign Bob Dylan and the Band to ElektraAsylum, and he thought having her along might be an asset.
Geffen announced that Dylan's new Ashes and Sands Records would release one album to coincide with the tour and a second Dylan album that would be a recording of a concert on the tour.
www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random043/2001020214.html   (5468 words)

  
 Baltimore hebrew University - Geffen Becomes BHU Permanent Head   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Geffen, a noted sociologist of American Jewish life, signed a three-year contract May 3 with BHU.
Geffen began here last summer in the wake of the sudden resignation of Dr. Robert O. Freedman.
Geffen is widely known in Jewish academic circles for her 35 scholarly articles, and editing or co-editing of three books.
www.bhu.edu /jtimes/051101.htm   (648 words)

  
 Geffen Cancer Center - Meet the Director   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Geffen completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Diego Medical Center, and fellowship training in Hematology and Oncology at the Cancer Research Institute, University of California at San Francisco Medical Center.
Geffen has also travelled extensively and studied Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine in India, Nepal and Tibet, and has many years of training in various styles of yoga, meditation and other approaches to health and self-awareness.
Geffen is certified in Medical Oncology by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
www.geffencenter.com /meetthedirector.html   (217 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Geffen, David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For others, however, Geffen is regarded as an extraordinarily generous and caring person, one who believes in and supports passionately a diverse array of social and political causes, ranging from homeless shelters to AIDS research.
Geffen was soon able to bankroll his own label, Asylum Records, which was initially distributed by Atlantic Records but quickly sold by Geffen to Warner Brothers in 1971 for $7,000,000.
Geffen had already lost several of his close friends to AIDS, but he was particularly affected by the death of his pal and partying companion Steve Rubell, owner of the infamous New York disco Studio 54.
www.glbtq.com /arts/geffen_d.html   (748 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Operator : David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Geffen allegedly softens up his prey in a business deal by offering up disarming gossip about his own life--his traumatic courtship of Cher, or Marlo Thomas, perhaps, or the male prostitute he is said to have boasted about being in bed with the night John Lennon was shot.
The richer Geffen became, the more good he did, but it is confounding that he hurt so many people in the process, not because they offended him personally but because they sought to be as good at dealmaking as he was.
Geffen's most disturbing trait as relayed in this book is his willingness to sabotage the careers of others by manufacturing toxic and unfounded rumors.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767907574?v=glance   (2294 words)

  
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In May 1940, Geffen won the major case of his career, "Lumberman's Casualty Company vs Clarence Griggs." In that decision the Georgia Supreme Court reversed the lower courts' ruling in regard to awarding workman's compensation to a man injured on the job.
In the 1960's Geffen worked with his father and his son in preparing the English translation of the Jewish legal responsum authored in 1935 by Rabbi Tobias Geffen on the issue of whether "Coca Cola was Kosher and Kosher for Passover." That translation and his biography of his father appeared in "Lev Tuviah," in 1988.
Geffen was a participant in many different organizations throughout his life, serving as an officer of the Zionist Organization of America, as president of the Southeastern Region of Young Judea, a Vice Chairman of the Atlanta School Board and Commander of the Jewish War Veterans Post 112.
www.ourfamilystory.net /GeffenLouis.html   (1076 words)

  
 BW Online | March 22, 2000 | A Portrait of David Geffen as a Bad Guy
Geffen came to the aid of former Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers after her husband's death and during a grave illness of her own.
Geffen did not have the luxury of coming of age in a time when homosexuality was as accepted as it is now.
Geffen saw early in his career that many of the men whose success he admired and hoped to emulate were married.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00322b.htm   (1063 words)

  
 Geffen House
Geffen House vacation rentals are located just minutes from world famous wineries and restaurants in St. Helena.
Geffen House Cottage is a romantic one-bedroom cottage on private grounds, conveniently located about 1/2 mile above the historic Silverado Trail in St. Helena.
Construction finished in 1997, Geffen House in Deer Park is an elegantly yet comfortably furnished 3 bedroom, 2bath home.
www.geffenhouse.com   (366 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Rise and Rise of David Geffen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The story is well researched and well reported, but it seems that Geffen is a hero to the author, and there is a positive slant placed on almost all his actions.
Geffen's life from a small child, to his first record label, to Geffen Reords, to Dream Works in the making.
Geffen is a highly respected person who deserves every penny he has made.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559724307?v=glance   (1141 words)

  
 CNN.com - Books - New biography paints dark picture of media mogul Geffen - March 9, 2000
Geffen's father, now also deceased, never held down a steady job and his mother Batya owned a small shop where she made and sold women's undergarments.
According to the book, Geffen not only is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, he's also one of the most feared.
King points out that Geffen was one of the first people to recognize the power of MTV and music videos to support the sales of records.
archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/03/09/geffen   (1248 words)

  
 Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
King sees it differently, depicting Geffen (as he does in the book) as an insecure control freak who sought to manipulate every aspect of his public image and blew up when he discovered that he couldn't.
King has Geffen operating as early as Chapter 2, but only because Chapter 1 focuses on his parents: a domineering mother (who makes her living selling bras) and a "henpecked" father whom Geffen despises.
To King, Geffen's childhood dramas are a blueprint for his career, which begins when Geffen lies his way into a mail-room job at William Morris.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/media/features/2329   (816 words)

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