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PEOPLE&ARTS Friday 7 July 2017
Music giant Jimmy Iovine in ‘Defiant’ alliance with Dr. Dre

By FRAZIER MOORE does really well, but all of a
AP Television Writer sudden another company
NEW YORK (AP) — “The comes and challenges it.
Defiant Ones,” a new HBO “I never celebrated a suc-
docuseries about two gi- cess. There are no victory
ants in the entertainment laps. There’s no rearview
world, takes its title from a mirror in my car. I’m always
1958 film classic about two moving forward.” That’s
prison escapees, one black the lesson he wants viewers
and one white, who are to take from the film. “The
shackled together as they most important thing I ever
make a break for freedom. learned: No matter how
Airing Sunday through ugly it gets, keep moving.”
Wednesday at 9 p.m. EDT, Even so, his career reso-
the docuseries tracks the nates with other useful wis-
lives of Dr. Dre, whose up- dom.
bringing in Compton, Cali- From his first days in the
fornia, inspired him to be- music business, sweeping
come a pioneer of gang- up the studio where Len-
sta rap, and Jimmy Iovine, non and Springsteen made
a working-class kid from magic, “I learned how to
Brooklyn, New York, who be of service. OF service.
made his bones as a re- And I took it from there all
cord producer working with the way to Apple Music. I
John Lennon, Patti Smith want Apple Music to be OF
and Bruce Springsteen. In this June 27, 2017, file photo, music mogul Jimmy Iovine, center, poses with rapper Dr. Dre, service, not A service — not
This four-part portrait differs left, and producer Allen Hughes at the premiere of HBO’s “The Defiant Ones” at the Time Warner just a utility.”
markedly from the origi- Center in New York. Told that his interviewer is a
nal “Defiant Ones,” whose Associated Press Spotify guy, Iovine fires up
fictional heroes are liter- tainment?” les. “We had a rule in the he insists just means “I love his Apple Music app and
ally stuck with each other. With remarkable finesse, editing room: ‘If grandma to shop and I liked the shirt, demonstrates a few of its
The unlikely kindred spirits the film laces back and wouldn’t understand it, it’s so I bought it.” bells and whistles, includ-
Dre and Iovine are bond- forth between their wildly gotta go.’” Only days earlier, Iovine ing a Favorites playlist that
ed not by chains but by different origins, then fol- With a bounty of archival previewed “The Defiant Apple Music has just cu-
a mutual passion that ce- lows their implausible asso- footage and scores of new Ones,” which, despite es- rated for him: songs include
mented their relationship ciation culminating in their interviews, the film was sev- chewing the “he-did-this, “Glory Days,” ‘’I Wanna
with Iovine’s Interscope Re- 2014 sale of Beats Electron- eral years in the making. he-did-that” biopic struc- Be Sedated,” ‘’Just Like a
cords, which soon after its ics to Apple for more than “I kept saying, ‘This thing ture Iovine loathes, inevi- Woman,” ‘’Brown Sugar”
1990 launch was swept up $3 billion. won’t go away,’” Iovine tably lays out his career as and “Mambo Baby,” a
in armed warfare between “The biggest challenge was laughs. “I didn’t think it a half-century timeline of 1950s release by R&B great
rap rivals, not to mention to blend these men, these would be four episodes, popular music. Along with Ruth Brown.
political and corporate as- cultures, these genres,” man! I kept saying, ‘ONE!’” recalling his triumphs, was Iovine says he left the re-
sault. said Allen Hughes, who di- Arriving for an interview last there anything that made cord business for digital
“I hate to use the word rected “The Defiant Ones.” week, Iovine is sporting a him squeamish to revisit in streaming because it made
‘scary,’ but it got really Hughes said his film is meant white baseball cap on his the film? “All of it,” Iovine sense to keep moving: “I
weird,” he says before pos- to speak to all audiences shaved head and a de- says, as if by reflex. “It was didn’t want to be the guy
ing a rhetorical question: and musical tastes. signer T-shirt with woodcuts so painful, man. Even hav- who sold the last CD.”
“Why did these two guys “We want to throw a gang- of owls, which might have ing hit records is painful, He feels right at home at
stay together under the sta party that everyone’s symbolized his stature, at ‘cause you think you can’t Apple, where he has no
most difficult circumstanc- invited to,” he explained age 64, as an entertain- do it again. Or Beats comes title and “no one reports to
es in the history of enter- by phone from Los Ange- ment wise man, but which out with a headphone that me.q

Patton Oswalt engaged to

marry actress Meredith Salenger

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor McNamara, died in April his standup routine.
and comedian Patton Os- 2016 from a combination People magazine was first
walt is engaged to marry of prescription medications to report the news of the
actress Meredith Salenger. and an undiagnosed heart engagement.
The couple recently went condition. She was a writer Oswalt played Spence on
public with their relation- who founded the website the sitcom “The King of
ship at the Los Angeles pre- True Crime Diary, which Queens.” He’ll appear in
miere of “Baby Driver.” Os- covered breaking stories the upcoming NBC com-
walt’s publicist confirmed and cold cases. edy “A.P. Bio.”
the news of their engage- Oswalt had been public Salenger has appeared in This image taken from video on June 20, 2017 shows Meredith
ment Thursday. with his grief, writing about numerous TV shows and Salenger, left, and Patton Oswalt at the premiere of AMC’s “The
Oswalt’s wife, Michelle it and incorporating it into movies.q Preacher,” in Los Angeles.