Posted 2:06 PM by Gene

Today I was perusing excerpts from one of the great soundtracks of one of the truly great movie musicals ever -- Lucille Ball in Mame (pffh-hh-hh) -- when suddenly I thought of one of the great men of all time who produced it, the LEGENDARY funeral director and quasi-Mafioso Steve Ross, veritable founder and chairman of the quagmire now called Time Warner.  So I looked his name up in Google.  Of the first hundred entries only six have anything to do with him.  I then looked him up in Google Images.  Of the first hundred images only three show his face.  (Steven J. Ross [one of his aliases] in quotations didn't fare much better; I got 1,940 hits, and quite a few people share the name.)  Before Ken Auletta and the Sycophants make another hero of another Master of the Universe, we should ponder this one's fate, and how, in their eagerness to create empires surpassing those in their own minds, such Masters pulled the whole culture down with them, and left nothing but DROSS.

P. S.  I think Ross would be proud of the way Warner Music's marketed this album.  Rhino sold this as a "limited edition" release for $19.98 -- and then Warner "LICENSED" it to Collectors' Choice Music, which sells it for $12.95.  Is it any wonder people pirate CDs?