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Y ou don’t expect a lot of laughs at a funeral, but even before dozens of entertainment’s biggest names — musicians, business titans, executives, media personalities — filed into New York’s Central Synagogue on June 29 to say goodbye to Clive Davis , who died one week earlier at age 94, there were already jokes predicting the gathering’s run time. “We know he didn’t plan it, because it would have been eight hours — and four would’ve been Clive talking,” Diane Warren recounts with her signature sass.

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