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DreamWorks SKG partner David Geffen would like to be thought of as a political Zen master, a general without troops, a giver without desires. He talks frequently with White House officials, gave $320,000 to Democrats during the past four years and brought Bill Clinton into his Malibu, California, home to dine with key contributors like Steven Spielberg ($200,000) and Jeffrey Katzenberg ($195,000). Yet Geffen told TIME, "I have no active involvement in trying to influence legislation of any kind." He is the President's point man in Hollywood, making connections and keeping the campaign money flowing, even...
...Hollywood, he felt the need to prove himself all over again (with the kind help of an estimated $150 million parting package from Murdoch). This is the sort of itch you acquire when, even as your net worth is accreting into the low nine figures, pal David Geffen's is pushing a billion...
Champs--the first TV show from Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen's DreamWorks studio--is far more sentimental. It stars Timothy Busfield--Elliot on thirtysomething--as Tom McManus, a happily married father who spends most of his time with three romantically troubled buddies he's known since high school, all of whom own far too many pairs of sweatpants. Tom and his wife Linda (Ashley Crow) long for a time when their friends were not divorced; perhaps they should also long for dialogue with observations more interesting than "You can't turn back the clock...
...from Paramount to Disney, and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. to Disney. Those shifts cued the creation of Fox as a fourth TV network and Disney's growth into a multimedia behemoth . Now, in less than a year, Katzenberg leaves Disney and starts DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen; Ovitz's partner Ron Meyer takes the vacant post at MCA; and Ovitz, the top dealmaker, joins Eisner, the most powerful showman. Says director and CAA client Martin Scorsese: "It will be interesting to see what films get made, and who flourishes, in this new world order...
Entertainment mogul David Geffenannounced that he will donate $4 million to two New York AIDS organizations. "I hope my contribution will encourage more people to come forward and give generously," Geffen told TIME Daily. "The real need is to raise money from people, whatever they can give, whether it's ten dollars, a hundred, a thousand. I've given $10 million to AIDS causes over the last three years." The money will be divided between the Gay Men's Health Crisis and God's Love We deliver, an organization that provides hot meals to homeless AIDS victims...