It’s a Wednesday afternoon in early December, and Monte Lipman is running late, but with good reason: Journalist, activist and feminist icon Gloria Steinem has been in the Republic Records offices in midtown Manhattan for the past two hours, speaking to the staff about equal rights. “It’s amazing — the woman is 88 years old, sharper than ever, and she was just kind of sharing her thoughts,” Lipman says when he comes to the phone. “The Q&A was dynamite and everyone was just geeking out about her.”
Lipman has had plenty of reasons to be in a great mood of late. The chairman/CEO of Republic saw his
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