Word: diller
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...would call Lowell (Bud) Paxson a dimwit. He is an unusual sort of TV executive, certainly: a born-again Christian who makes more money than headlines and counts among his achievements the Home Shopping Network, which he sold for a bundle in 1992. Nor would Barry Diller, a genuine TV honcho who makes a lot of money and headlines, qualify as anything less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson...
WHOM YOU'LL SEE About 300 of Wall Street's and Hollywood's most powerful and famous (and about 100 of their glittery offspring). This year: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Andy Grove, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Diane Sawyer (a longtime friend of Allen's), John Malone, Geraldine Laybourne, Diane von Furstenberg and Jerry Levin...
...words and phrases like "synergy," "21st century" and "content is king" flew about, all three principals seemed as energized by one another as by the prospects for their partnership. Imagine the giddy, self-important friendships of high school; then imagine a high school in which the upperclassmen are Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, and you will begin to get the picture...
...fetched chicanery as it imputed to all those Trilateral geezers who look like Clark Clifford. Take our hero, Fox Mulder--his first name is the same as the network that owns the show. Mulder's FBI boss, the skinheaded Skinner, is a dead ringer for former Fox chief Barry Diller. And just what is the name of the show? The X Files, as the logo clearly states? Or The X-Files, as the publicity indicates...
Some industry veterans figure Bronfman isn't done reshuffling yet. Speculation lingers about a sale to DreamWorks, though DreamWorks partner David Geffen says, "That's a made-up story." Some expect Diller, still assembling his new USA Networks Inc., to play a larger role, but Diller denies that, saying "I have enough to do." He says he doesn't even discuss Universal's business with Bronfman. As for the harsh reviews that Bronfman's recent performance has received, Diller dismisses them. "Hollywood turns on everybody and then turns back," he says. "Such is the nature of the process." In other...