Hitmakers began chasing a high-gloss, almost clinical ideal of perfection, valuing production dazzle over raw emotion.

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This was a big reason he personally signed brother-and-sister singing duo Richard and Karen Carpenter, who would become one of the label's top hitmakers.

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Hollywood hitmakers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard of Imagine Entertainment plan to turn the Rich saga into a movie, based on the 2009 book by Swiss journalist Daniel Ammann, The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich.

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