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...creative decisions has rarely been higher than it is now, with many industry veterans blaming a bean-counter mentality for a number of box-office disappointments in recent years. "Brilliant ideas come from brilliant people who don't really care about stock price," said film and TV producer Bernie Brillstein...
...been a monster few months, what with all the meetings he's been taking. Winkler has talked to Brillstein-Grey, the producers of The Sopranos, about creating a television show; hung with Ron Howard in the Grinch's cave on the set of How the Grinch Stole Christmas; and listened to a pitch from some folks at Universal who are interested in having him make a film based on his characters. Also, Adam Sandler just slipped him a small role in his next picture. How did Winkler, a struggling 35-year-old freelance animator, get here? One word: doodie...
Howard and his more than 50 online competitors are eyeing the one place we, the most overentertained culture ever, are still bored: the office. Likewise the producers Brillstein-Grey and 3 Arts are set to roll out Z.com a site that has signed Oliver Stone (Nixon, J.F.K.), producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Top Gun) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Magic Johnson). Among Z.com's acquisitions is a six-minute pilot for a claymation series called Rotten Fruit, about an English band whose members curse at one another. You don't need much of an idea for a six-minute show...
...result in an explosion of cross promotions. Don't be surprised to see plugs for NFL football on MTV or specials about upcoming Paramount pictures airing on CBS. Hollywood producers fret that corporate priorities could distort programming decisions. "This can stifle creativity," says Brad Grey, chairman of management firm Brillstein-Grey and producer of HBO's The Sopranos. "These large companies want to put their own shows on the air first and foremost...
...riding the buzz. It is a buzz I built, albeit by accident. The buzz started last month, when I got a random call from Jed Weitzman, an ambitious 28-year-old manager at Brillstein-Grey. He told me that he really related to the pop references in my column and wanted to manage my Hollywood career, even though I didn't have one. Seeing as I am not the first to allude to The Brady Bunch in a story that was not about TV, I sensed this was just another lame cover for the attraction people feel for me after...