12/7/04
THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED Add disc jockey to former Celtic
Bill Walton 's list of accomplishments. The man in the middle during
the C's 1986 championship run is host of a new show on Sirius Satellite
Radio called "One More Saturday Night With Bill Walton." (The show,
which premiered over the weekend, airs Saturdays from 9 to midnight.) As
you could have guessed, Big Red spins a lot of Grateful Dead, with a
few '60s icons Neil Young , the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan thrown
in. The only person inducted into both the Basketball Hall of Fame and
the Grateful Dead's Hall of Honor said his mantra is "too much of
everything is just enough." "I play what I want," he said. (The
inaugural show was dedicated to Frank Rich of The New York Times, who
Walton believes has a rare ability to "tie it all together . . . I'm a
huge believer in the intergalactic relationship of sports, politics,
business, music, and the world.") So did the big guy ever take his Celtics
teammates to see the Dead at the Garden? "Yeah. We all met at Larry [
Bird 's] house," he said. "We all went except for Danny [ Ainge ] his
wife wouldn't let him go."
COOL
COUNSEL The hotshot lawyer who represents the artist currently known as
Prince not to mention Spike Lee and Stevie Wonder was a guest
instructor at Harvard Business School yesterday. L. Londell McMillan ,
who at 38 runs the largest African-American law firm in New York, talked
to the kiddies about the first-of-its-kind deal he cut for the former
glyph for his "Musicology" CD. (Prince licensed Sony to manage the
distribution and marketing, but he retained the rights to the music.)
Would these postgrads make the grade on "The Apprentice?" "These kids
were very astute and clever," McMillan said. "That's one of the reasons
Kwame [Jackson] got so far."
ROCK
ON Since the theme of Newbury Comics' annual holiday party Sunday was
"Prom Night," carnations were passed out, a photographer snapped
pictures of happy couples, and rock 'n' roll jokers Rock Bottom played
lame hits like "Hold On Loosely" and "Carry On My Wayward Son." Newbury
Comics' co-owner Mike Dreese , who's made dire predictions about the
music biz in the past, said his record stores are "moving sideways at a
good clip." Dreese said the company's Christmas bonuses would be
"significant," adding later that "none of us expected the year would go
as well as it did. This year the profits allow us to take risks and to
reward the people that do such a great job."
A
FINE HOW DO YOU DO A reception at New York's University Club for Boston
Symphony Orchestra music director James Levine attracted upper crusties
Phyllis Redstone , former wife of Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone ; US
News & World Report editor in chief Mort Zuckerman ; Clare Gregorian
, wife of Carnegie Foundation president Vartan Gregorian ; Pulitzer
Prize-winning composer George Perle ; and Priceline.com CEO and Lincoln
Center director Richard Braddock.
THIS
JUST IN Former CBS News president Dr. Frank Stanton , Walter
Shorenstein , and other newsies too numerous to mention were expected at
last night's forum at the JFK Library titled "What's Happened to the
News?" The evening's featured speakers were former Washington Post
editor Ben Bradlee and "60 Minutes" creator Don Hewitt . Moderating was
Meredith White , a former executive producer with ABC News and onetime
senior editor at Newsweek.
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