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...commercial agent and eventually breaking into the big-time comedy clubs. After a few TV appearances and cable specials, he was discovered by a group of Disney executives who were having a meeting to discuss new TV projects. "We were sitting in the room practically snoring," recalls Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney movie chief. Then someone put one of Allen's Showtime specials on the vcr: "He set the room on fire," says Katzenberg. "It was like everyone had touched a raw electric wire." Some of the group, including Disney chairman Michael Eisner, later went to the Improv comedy club...
Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., announced a joint venture with Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, the powerful Hollywood figures who recently formed their own entertainment conglomerate. The new company, in a deal indicative of the changing relationships between networks and studios, entered a seven-year contract to produce programming for networks, cable services, syndication and other media; ABC, in turn, will invest $100 million in the TV studio, giving it a 50% share in both financing and profits...
...Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Jenifer Mattos Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth, Tammerlin Drummond Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Patrick E. Cole, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...
...colleagues are convinced that Jeffrey Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles, never sleeps. Ressner ranges tirelessly from the executive suites of Burbank and the sound stages of Culver City to the tables down at Mortons and Spago. He has knocked back rounds of tequila with Oliver Stone, strolled the wild streets of Amsterdam with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and watched as many as five movies in a day. "He's the Jerry Rice of the Hollywood beat," says Jordan Bonfante, chief of our Los Angeles bureau. "Like the San Francisco 49er wide receiver, he'll catch anything...
...unusual candor that Ressner drew from Allen during their interview. "Stars are asked so many questions by so many reporters," says Collins, "that it takes someone with real intelligence and sympathy to get them to open up and say something honest and fresh. That's one of Jeffrey's great skills...