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steven_stuart 06:04 pm UTC 11/19/09 |
| I don't know why Mr. Smeg sometimes gives me a hard time for posting so-called "intimate" or inside information but yet he is not giving the poster known as caveman a hard time over at Dave's brilliant new website. I put this in the same "posters being unfair" category that includes Pudding driving Ryan (possibly the most interesting poster in Rockman history) off the board and Pudding constantly having a go at Conas (please refer to the arguement during the "Karen Carpenter" thread lower down the page when Conas writes: "You are really hard on me, and every message you post is a run down. You aren't good at giving someone confidence that's for sure. No wonder Ryan left and never came back."). "Caveman" is posting a lot of inside information. I wonder who "caveman" is. He must be a member of Jim's Inside Court. Its certainly not Susan, Wordnix, or any of the other famous nutters from Rockman. Caveman writes: "The production side is all a bit shabby from what I understand. Elva is still involved (I believe) and well-intentioned, but there is no major company (Sony declined). The other 'producers' are a group of elderly insurance people and a couple of old small-fry management types. Plus an ex-EMI chap whose name I can't remember. Some serious people I know looked at the project but the advice they received included the words 'barge pole', 'touch' and 'don't'." In another post he writes: "Jim is NOT financing it himself. As far as I understand, financing isn't even in place." Pudding wrote: "I think Jim or whoever, would need to have pretty huge balls to put out an ad in the Evening Standard without finaninc being fully in place." Caveman replied: "Not unless retaining the Rights to the musical was conditional upon a substantial advertisement appearing in a major London newspaper by a certain date, along with the setting up of a dedicated website. As Jerry Maguire used to say .. 'Show me the money!" He then posted: "Of course Jim doesn't 'own' the Rights to his own musical. He sold them to the company headed by Elva and Frances. They now own the Rights, which have been extended several times already. Often, there are default mechanisms inserted into Rights agreements that revert them back to their original owner if certain criteria have not been met by agreed dates. For example, if you were selling the Rights, you might insist that, unless a double-page announcement ad and website does not appear by such and such a date, the purchasers are in default and the Rights revert back to you. However, from what I gather, the actual concept and content of the ad itself was Jim's own. Which is probably why he chose music for a career rather than advertising." About Frances caveman wrote: "she's actually a very sweet lady who thinks the music is a bit loud and refers to the show as 'the play'." This comment more than any other made me think that caveman is an insider. Wordnix replied (poor Frances): "In a strange way, I kind of enjoy the thought of Jim sitting at the piano or something bashing out his classics, and this little old lady counting out her share of the investment saying, "Mind the noise, dearie, I'm counting cash for the play!"" Caveman then posted: "That sounds like Elva alright. She lived in Canada for some years where she worked in television news before moving into Ice Shows and Arena tours. She worked with John Curry and was quite innovative in her day. I think the idea for buying the Rights for Bat came when she was searching for a soundtrack to use as part of a motorbike arena show. She also worked with a guy called Steve Leber, who was part of the 'Beatlemania' team in New York. For a while, he and his son Jordan were involved with part of the London team for Bat, but things fizzled out. Who knows, he might be back in the frame..? Elva also owns the Rights to a stage adaptation to the Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingstone Segal. Does this help?" All the Rockman readers (as well as many others) are reading these posts. Its unfair that my mother (Elva)and JD want me to remain silent and this chap can write what he wants to. Some of caveman's comments are absolutely true. He is being a bit unfair about poor old Frances because she is an investor and not really a producer. My mother is the only one who deals with Jim on a daily basis. The others are very nice people who have invested hard earned money and who are genuine fans of Jim. Although he is not technically wrong with what he says about Frances. There is a financial producer (who disagrees with what caveman has said about the finance not being in place) but he deals with business and bookings and leaves the creative side to my mother and Jim and people like the director and the lighting designer. Caveman's comments about the finances not being in place is the only subject he got wrong. This is possibly because the financial producer is new on the scene and he has not yet been introduced to the "inside court" that caveman obviously belongs to. This is about to change, so watch out for caveman talking about him on Dave's website in the near future. Hope you and Jim are having a productive week. | |
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