New York Post June 28, 2006
DAVID Geffen is a brilliant businessman, but he made one incredibly bad call early in his career. In her new autobiography, "Society's Child," pop singer Janis Ian reveals how Geffen and Hal Ray, her agents at William Morris, once presented her with an offer to do the soundtrack for "something called 'The Graduate,' and advised me to pass. One of them said . . . 'It stars some big-nosed unknown kid with a funny name and bad hair. The story line is silly - [he] graduates from college, has an affair with his mother's close friend and neighbor, falls in love with the neighbor's daughter, then runs away with her after breaking into church where the wedding's being held. Oh, and he locks everybody else inside . . . with a big cross, while he and this chick make their escape . . . Ridiculous.' We passed. Paul Simon did the score, and the rest is history." The Dustin Hoff man movie got seven Oscar nonimations and its Simon & Garfunkel song "Mrs. Robinson" was a huge hit.
Somehow "Where have you gone Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a lonely nation turns it's eyes to you..oooh oooh oooh" just doesn't have the same zing.
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