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The ’80s were darker — you can watch the 2014 movie “Love & Mercy” for a look at Wilson’s experiences with the therapist Eugene Landy, whom the record exec Seymour Stein once described to me as “the most evil person that I ever met” — and yet no Wilson fan ever wanted to stop believing that Brian would come back, a hope he kept alive through decades of intermittently brilliant work on his own, with Parks and even sometimes with the Beach Boys.

Stone is said to have hated his breakout single, which he supposedly made at the behest of Clive Davis after the record exec requested something more commercial than the Family Stone’s coolly received debut LP, “A Whole New Thing.”

Whether she’s playing a ruthless record exec with a lisp in “Josie and the Pussycats” or appearing as a hard-nosed prosecutor saying the words “f**k, suck and rim” with disbelief in “The Staircase,” her prowess is irrefutable.

Hollywood Hills home, which served as studio exec Bev Melon’s party house.

In February, shortly after pop wunderkind Chappell Roan used her Grammy acceptance speech to demand record labels pay their artists a livable wage and give them better healthcare, the Hollywood Reporter published an inflammatory op-ed by a former label exec.