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Biography of David Lawrence Geffen
Name: David Lawrence Geffen
Birth Date: February 21, 1943
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: record producer, film producer, Broadway show producer
David Lawrence Geffen
David Geffen (born 1943) has emerged as one of the wealthiest individuals in rock music through his combined talents as a manager, label owner, and film producer.BeginningsDavid Geffen's father, Abraham Geffen, was only three years old in 1906 when his Jewish family packed their few belongings and left their home in Vilna, Russia, for America. Many years later, in 1930, a marriageable "Abe" Geffen would again cross the Atlantic, having decided to use his hard-earned savings to see the world. Taking leave of his job as a Western Union telegrapher, he made his way first to Europe and later to Palestine, where he met a pretty seamstress by the name of Batya Volovskaya.Volovskaya had been born in a small village in the Ukraine in 1907. Her father was a wealthy Jewish landowner. Her mother ran a small pharmacy and cosmetology business. When she was thirteen, Volovskaya's parents sent her to live with …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…told ABCNews.com in 2000: "[Geffen] apparently doesn't like the way the book portrays him. He has told people that he thinks the book is a 'total character assassination.' It is not. In my mind, the book is a very balanced portrait of a man who has made indisputable contributions to pop culture history. At the same time, he's no boy scout. He knocked a lot of people off the ladder on his way to the top, and those people's stories are reflected in the book too." Further Reading King, Tom, The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood, Random House, 2000.Calonius, Erik, "Their Wildest Dreams," Fortune, August 16, 1999."David Geffen," Musicweb, http://www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopaedia/g/G19.HTM (January 2003). "Hollywood's High and Mighty: Chat with the Author of a Biography of David Geffen," ABCNews.com, http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/king_chat000417.html (January 2003).
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