Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That may sound strange, but father and son have not spoken with one voice of late. Last month, while Junior was denying that his father was distressed over his decision to sell the company's 25% stake in DuPont in order to buy into Hollywood, Senior suggested in an interview with W magazine that trading nylon for celluloid was a terrible idea. His chagrin is understandable: the DuPont stock, worth $8.8 billion when Seagram sold it in 1995 to pay for its $5.7 billion purchase of Universal, has soared about $9 billion in value. Seagram's stock lags the market...
...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 words, Edgar needs to wait for the sequel...
Bill Gates wants to turn your PC into a full-purpose multimedia box. Win 98 users who shell out $100 for a TV add-in card can tune in to all the browser-based WebTV content Hollywood can produce--if Microsoft can persuade Hollywood to produce it. Also key: a new DVD driver that should make gaming hotter than ever...
...Hollywood is busy right now, as the networks scramble to put together their fall schedules and wrestle with such weighty problems as which show will get Seinfeld's time slot and how quickly they can clone Ally McBeal. This spring, however, the most intriguing moves are being contemplated at the network news divisions. The result could be a big step on the road to a long dreamed of, but never realized, goal: a network newscast in the lucrative, heavily viewed hours of prime time...
...space at Levine's Krav Maga National Training Center in West L.A. Krav Maga classes are also offered in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia, but Levine's center is the most comprehensive teaching facility in the country, drawing not just students, corporate types and the Hollywood crowd but also soldiers and cops. (Charlie Sheen's bodyguards are said to be versed in the ways of Krav Maga.) Institutional clients include federal agencies, SWAT teams and more than 100 police departments...