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	Sidney_Sheinberg LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Sheinberg was notorious for attempting to edit and make odd suggestions for Universal-distributed films and was sometimes successful.
		Sheinberg thought the movie had potential if it was edited to fit the theme of "love conquers all".
		Sheinberg felt that the Ridley Scott fantasy film would have a stronger box office potential with teenagers if 20 minutes were cut to trim the running time down to roughly an hour and a half and the Jerry Goldsmith score was replaced by one featuring Tangerine Dream.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Sidney_Sheinberg (718 words)

	Change of Focus / Onetime film mogul Sidney Sheinberg finds joy working on an indie
		Sheinberg, who ran MCA/Universal with MCA founder Lew Wasserman for 28 years, is happy to have dumped Hollywood for indie films.
		Sheinberg.'' These days the mogul once noted for his caustic persona is a man of droll humor, patience, modesty and blue jeans.
		Sheinberg stepped down as Universal president in October 1995 but still had a contract for five films, including ``For Richer or Poorer'' and ``Flipper.'' The films generally flopped, and Sheinberg terminated the contract.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/02/16/DD84328.DTL&type=printable (1163 words)

	eFilmCritic - We're All In This Together: How Critics Can Make A Difference
		Sheinberg grew tired of the finger pointing and felt that the best thing to do would be to sell the film off and take a loss.
		Sheinberg: “If you want my opinion of who looks the silliest—and let’s concede that anybody who participated in this ended up looking silly—I think the group that looked the silliest was the L.A. film critics.
		Sid Sheinberg’s “Brazil,” the 97-minute cut assembled by a team of editors using Gilliam’s donation of outtakes, blooper reels and unusable footage and absent of Michael Kamen’s score.
	efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=485&printer=1 (2457 words)

	Brazil FAQ - Content 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sidney Sheinberg, the president of Universal studios had taken an interest in Brazil - Sheinberg "liked many parts of Brazil, and thought there were many moments of bravura filmmaking," but what Sheinberg saw lacking was commercial potential.
		Sheinberg had forced Gilliam to sign a time provision which said that the running time of Brazil would have to be 132 minutes for Universal to accept it, and that even then Universal could follow up with any editing it deemed necessary.
		Gilliam told Sheinberg that if he was going to release to studio's edit of Brazil that he wanted his name off of the credits, and then started an out and out publicity war.
	www.trond.com /brazil/b_faq02.html (862 words)

	Cinespot » Blog Archive » Brazil: Love Conquers All (in Hollywood) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Of course, in the Sheinberg this metaphor is removed from the outset and replaced with a very awkward bit of exposition which smooths away any difficulties the viewer may encounter within Gilliam’s distopian world.
		And so, Sheinberg’s editors, in effect, drain the scene of it’s situational irony, and strangely commit the same error as the character in the scene: they create the exact problem (confusion) that they are fastidiously trying to avoid.
		Sheinberg’s editors use these same shots but followed by the medium shot and with quicker cuts, which have the effect of disorienting our sense of the room’s space.
	www.cinespot.org /2005/10/10/brazil-love-conquers-all-in-hollywood (920 words)

	Spielberg's Jewishness
		Spielberg in 1982 by his early mentor, Sidney J. Sheinberg, president of MCA.
		Sheinberg who in the late 60's had seen Mr.
		Sheinberg said, "it was because of the sensitivity of those characters and the relationships on the screen.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/spielberg.html (521 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Spielberg’s profitable consulting arrangement was quietly negotiated during the regime of Lew Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg, who ran Universal’s then-parent MCA Inc. until 1995, when Seagram Co. bought the company.
		The MCA executives had given Spielberg his break when he was a fledgling filmmaker in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		Sheinberg declined to go into detail about the deal, but termed it an appropriate reward for the director’s creative role in helping shape Universal’s theme parks.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030625/asp/foreign/story_2101745.asp (452 words)

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		Sidney Sheinberg, the president of Universal studios had taken an interest in _Brazil_ -- Sheinberg "liked many parts of _Brazil_, and thought there were many moments of bravura filmmaking," but what Sheinberg saw lacking was commercial potential.
		Sheinberg had forced Gilliam to sign a time provision which said that the running time of _Brazil_ would have to be 132 minutes for Universal to accept it, and that even then Universal could follow up with any editing it deemed necessary.
		The Sheinberg Edit makes the following changes (it is likely a number of versions of the SE have been shown on television, as the stations themselves may have done their own editing for time.) The scene between Jill and Sam described above is included.
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/python/Scripts/Brazil/Brazil-FAQ (6311 words)

	TIME 100: Artist & Entertainers - Steven Spielberg
		I wanted to be a "director." And so, bankrolled by a young friend with hopes of being a producer, he wrote and directed, in ten days, for $10,000, a short film called Amblin', about a boy and a girl hitchhiking from the desert to the Pacific Ocean.
		The day after Spielberg showed the film at Universal, he was called in by Sidney Jay Sheinberg, head of TV production, and offered a seven-year contract to direct Universal TV series.
		Moreover, Sheinberg, now president and chief operating officer of Universal's parent organization, MCA, has maintained a paternal relationship with Spielberg.
	www.time.com /time/time100/artists/profile/spielberg_related4.html (914 words)

	AEGiS-LT: Hollywood Sends a Sign of Support Leaders: An update on first anniversary of the industry AIDS ...
		Former Fox Inc. chairman Barry Diller and MCA Inc. president Sidney Sheinberg, the two industry leaders who organized Hollywood Supports, had called on their peers to show up at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel for a first anniversary update on the organization's goals and achievements.
		The point being, as Diller and Sheinberg noted, to illustrate the range of support from an industry that often has been the target of criticism for its handling of the AIDS issue on screen and off, as well as for instances of discrimination against homosexuals.
		Sheinberg said Hollywood Supports has pushed companies and guilds to adopt sexual orientation non-discrimination policies and to train supervisors in diversity.
	www.aegis.com /news/lt/1992/LT921205.html (1015 words)

	Total Media: Blank tape, cdrs, mini dv, audio, video and computer recording supplies
		Columbo and Kojak-see Part 1) came to New York to meet with Sony's president, Akio Morita, to express their concerns that the Betamax VCR had violated copyright laws and was the equivalent of a "weapon" that, in the hands of the public, would ultimately "destroy" the Hollywood studios.
		Sheinberg, to Morita's astonishment, threatened to sue for copyright infringement unless Sony agreed to withdraw the Betamax VCR from the market.
		Morita, who had excellent relations with Hollywood, initially thought this threat was merely a bluff, and Universal's main objective was to thwart the VCR in favor of the playback-only Videodisc (Discovision), which Universal and parent company MCA preferred and on which they held several patents.
	www.totalmedia.com /trivia_7.asp (692 words)

	IGN: Profile: Minoru Arakawa
		Sidney Sheinberg, president of MCA Universal, told Nintendo it had forty-eight hours to hand over all profits of Nintendo's Donkey Kong and to destroy any unsold games.
		MCA's Sheinberg threatened to crush all those who opposed it.
		They refused to give into Sheinberg's demands and took the case to court.
	cube.ign.com /articles/526/526440p4.html (910 words)

	THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Sheinberg Record Label - New York Times
		Sidney Sheinberg, the former MCA president who started his own production company last month with financing from MCA's parent, the Seagram Company, plans to start a record label, one of Mr.
		The label, to be called Bubble Factory Records, will initially concentrate on producing soundtracks but could expand into other forms of music, the assistant said.
		Sheinberg said the record label's products would be distributed by MCA's music division.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DC1539F933A2575BC0A963958260 (97 words)

	DVDivas.net
		It doesn't help that critic Jack Matthews, serving as host, is pretty grating, or that the director simply had no idea what to do in certain segments, where Matthews had audio tape of then-studio head Sidney Sheinberg, but no visuals.
		We spend up to three or four minutes listening while all the while staring at a title saying "Sidney Sheinberg" and the date the tape was recorded.
		While this reveals, among other things, how Sheinberg just didn't get the film, it's bad technique, especially when you see the wealth of material available elsewhere on the disc.
	www.dvdivas.net /movies/reviews/b/brazil-special.html (917 words)

	Brian's Education Blog • "Do you wanna graduate college or do you wanna be a film director?" — Spielberg makes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Since the negative was held at the Technicolor lab within Universal Studios, the twenty-four-minute movie was handily situated for a providential borrowing.
		Universal's president in charge of TV was thirty-two-year-old Sidney Jay Sheinberg, and after a feature screening one night.
		Sheinberg recalls a 'nerd-like, scrawny creature' appearing: 'The surprising thing was that he looked just like me.'
	www.brianmicklethwait.com /education/archives/001649.htm (397 words)

	Sid Sheinberg Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sidney Sheinberg distinguished himself as a durable and powerful studio executive, long with MCA/Universal where he served as president and COO from 1973 until its 1995 sale to Edgar Bronfman Jr.
		Soon thereafter as a protege of Lew Wasserman, Sheinberg, at the age of 38, assumed his several important roles within the parent company.
		Sheinberg is married to character actress Lorraine Gary, probably best known as Roy Scheider's wife in several of the "Jaws" films.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/1117720 (511 words)

	SciFlicks.com ---> Brazil - The Facts
		Director Terry Gilliam was reported to have been rather unhappy with Kim Griest's performance, and as a result many of her scenes were drastically cut and/or trimmed down.
		The technician who, right at the start of the film, swats the fly which falls into the printer causing the fatal misprint is Ray Cooper, the percussionist who accompanied Elton John on his famous Russian concerts in 1979.
		The highly publicized feud between Gilliam and Universal chairman Sid Sheinberg can be recounted in the Criterion laserdisc's documentary, and in the book "The Battle For Brazil", most recently updated and republished in late 1998.
	www.sciflicks.com /brazil/facts.html (556 words)

	:: Búsqueda HispaVista : sid sheinberg :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sid Sheinberg - Complete artist information on Sid Sheinberg including news, interviews, message boards, song clips, video streams, audio streams, news alerts and more.
		The religion of Sid Sheinberg, president of MCA
		The religious affiliation (religion) of Sid Sheinberg, a talent agent who became the president of Universal Studios and an important Hollywood executive.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sidney Sheinberg, the president of Universal studios had taken an interest in BRAZIL -- Sheinberg "liked many parts of BRAZIL, and thought there were many moments of bravura filmmaking," but what Sheinberg saw lacking was commercial potential.
		The Sheinberg Edit (the "Love Conquers All" version") makes a number of very major changes to all of the above versions: After the AT cloud intro and the Central Services ad, the movie shifts to a highly edited version of the restaurant sequence.
		Several readers recall seeing a version of the Sheinberg "Love Conquers All" edit that contained a clip of Casablanca, and the line "You look like you've seen a ghost, Sam," neither of which are present on the Criterion disc.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/faqs/movies/brazil-faq (7040 words)

	Music Corporation of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prominent early MCA booked artists included King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton.
		Lew Wasserman rose through the ranks to MCA for more than four decades, with Sonny Werblin as his right-hand man. Other executives within the company were Sidney Sheinberg, President of MCA, and Ned Tanen, head of Universal Pictures.
		Tanen was behind Universal hits such as Animal House, and John Hughes's Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_Corporation_of_America (628 words)

	A Pulpit Online for Critics of 'The Da Vinci Code' Film \| GadsdenTimes.com \| Gadsden Times \| Gadsden, AL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sidney Sheinberg, the former president of MCA-Universal, which released "The Last Temptation of Christ," the 1988 film by Martin Scorsese, was skeptical that a Web site would satisfy those who found "The Da Vinci Code" insulting to their religion.
		Sheinberg received death threats, hate mail and even a pig's head mailed to his home at the time.
		The former studio chief said he had appealed to various Christian groups before that movie's release but did not succeed in quelling outrage from others.
	www.gadsdentimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/ZNYT05/602090366/1011 (935 words)

	Hypermedia Brazil FAQ
		As is rarely the case, an underdog director successfully battled a studio to get his film released as he intended it...
		Sid Sheinberg didn't like the title, and had the Universal staff submit suggestions for a new title.
		Sidney Sheinberg: president of Universal studios during production of Brazil.
	www.hf.rim.or.jp /~morrow/brazil/brazilfaq140/brazilfaq14e-m01.html#7 (8273 words)

	Sidney seven - "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" by Margaret Sidney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A Mother Jones Classic: For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it Sidney J. Sheinberg.
		There were seven Americans chosen in first round, tying the US record set in 1986 and matched in 2003.
		WambliWW: I have heard Sidney Has No Horses speak about the great pain which the theses Seven Fires never has hate and jealousy toward each other.
	finderlist.com /fnri/sidney-seven.htm (299 words)

	The Caucus
		I took the concept to Sidney Sheinberg, then vice-president in charge of television at Universal, where I was under contract as an independent producer.
		Krampner had talked with Frank Price, successor to Sidney Sheinberg as president of Universal television, and he had suggested that Krampner ought to call me before writing anything about Movie of the Week.
		Krampner called, and began by telling me he had been informed that Movie of the Week was created by Leonard Goldberg and Barry Diller.
	www.caucus.org /archives/94win_whocreated.html (2976 words)

	What is LEGEND? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When the time came to release LEGEND in the United States Sidney Sheinberg, the president of Universal Studios at the time, decided that LEGEND still needed some work to make it a “better”, more marketable film.
		Scott worked with Sheinberg to re-edit the film to emphasize the action elements and love story of LEGEND over the larger issue of saving the world.
		Scott takes the blame and responsibility for all changes made and says that the only thing Sheinberg was trying to do was help the film.
	www.figmentfly.com /legend/background1.html (1110 words)

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