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...book's authors, Charles Murray '65 and the late Harvard Professor Richard Herrnstein, have been called "dangerous" (by The New York Times Magazine), "intellectual racists" (by the author Hugh Pearson), and "Neo-Nazis" (by Jeffrey Rosen and Charles Lane of The New Republic...
David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg found a studio...
...White House was crammed with glamorati three weeks ago for a state dinner honoring Boris Yeltsin. Few noticed that among the visitors from Hollywood were three men -- director Steven Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and ousted Disney movie chief Jeffrey Katzenberg -- who between courses were giddily planning to merge their talent and clout in a new entertainment company. "We're in tuxedos talking about a brand new studio," Spielberg recalls, "and just across from us there's Yeltsin and Bill Clinton talking about disarming the world of nuclear weapons...
Geffen and Spielberg are famous and extremely rich, and investors would flock to a company they wanted to start up (this one will require about $2 billion in capital), but Katzenberg was the catalyst. As Spielberg said of his pal's fondness for perilous vacation trips, "Jeffrey wanted to go whitewater rafting and took us with...
Three of the biggest names in show business sent tremors rolling through the movie industry when they announced they were pooling their creative and financial resources in order to form their own studio. The trio: Jeffrey Katzenberg, the recently spurned Walt Disney Co. executive who is widely credited with revitalizing that studio's animation division; Steven Spielberg, history's most successful director; and David Geffen, the record-industry mogul. The new firm was rumored to be interested in helping a management-led buyout of an existing competitor -- most likely MCA's Universal -- in order to get a quick start...