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Hall's markedly less daring return to TV came about as the result of a phone call from Jeffrey Katzenberg, one-third of the power triumvirate (along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen) at the DreamWorks studio. Katzenberg, who, without a hint of irony in his voice, refers to Hall as a "national treasure," decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred...
...volatile business, the Weinsteins have long been king of the indies. "They're artists, entrepreneurs and passionate maniacs," says DreamWorks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg. "They have extraordinary gut meters for what's good, they're unbelievable salesmen, and they're equally painful to have to deal with. Together they are the Irving Thalberg of our time...
Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. When Dunne describes his open-heart surgery, Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner responds, "Of course, mine was more serious." Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland. But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing. It may be too much to expect 27 rewrites, but one more scroll through the laptop might have...
...dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing...
...dumbed down for filming. At one point an exasperated Dunne asks a producer what he thinks the picture is really about. "It's about two movie stars," he answers. 'Monster is loaded with payback and toxic anecdotes: Walt Disney Studios under the hard hand of then-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg was known as Mouschwitz or Duckau. "Dunne's account sometimes reads like a nonfiction sequel to his satiric 1994 Hollywood novel, Playland," note's TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But without fiction's remove and craft this chronicle often seems like a hasty downloading of shoptalk and tele-shmoozing...