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...Ticketmaster chairman Barry Diller ultimately apologized and blamed computer glitches for the ticketing mishap. But industry heavyweights snickered. "That stuff has gone on all the time. When he said it was a computer glitch - ha-ha - I nearly fell off my chair," said Randy Phillips, CEO of AEG Live, the country's second largest concert promoter. "I could not believe it. I mean, these are sophisticated businessmen - my God, a computer glitch?" Not surprisingly, Phillips opposes the merger and has even suggested he may cancel his seven-year contract with Ticketmaster if the deal goes through...
...Moreover, Portfolio never seemed to find an editorial voice that distinguished it from other business publications or to draw in crucial new readers or advertisers to the category. "Every time I saw another unfortunate portrait on the cover of someone 'venerable' - Sumner Redstone? Barry Diller? Really? - I thought about what could have been," says Jeff Chu, a writer who left TIME to work on the Portfolio launch and jumped ship after the first eight months. But more daring editorial choices, like December's cover subject of Dov Charney, the controversial CEO of American Apparel, came across as ill-timed...
Lawrence H. Diller is on the clinical faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of Running on Ritalin and The Last Normal Child...
...there any comedians you'd like to work with in the future? -Ansley Hayes, Dallas Phyllis Diller. I want us to do a road comedy together. And she drives. It would be called Crazy Grandma at the Wheel, and I would be a next-door neighbor she kidnaps because she's gotta get money to put down on a house in Florida. At the very end, we hold hands and we drive off a cliff. And there's a lot of sex scenes for both...
...open up the Alice Tully-Juilliard building, Diller and her partners more or less exploded it. At one triangular corner they greatly extended the lobby, wrapped it in glass and stacked a glass-walled dance-rehearsal space just above. That transparent box cantilevers over the street to offer free performances for whoever walks by - like a JumboTron but with real people dancing inside it. "We were trying to strike a balance," says Diller, "between the monumental and the dematerialized." Then they sliced the new space with a multistory diagonal plane. It creates a giant triangular canopy that launches itself toward...