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...VIEWED BY MANY in Hollywood and on Wall Street as among the pre-eminent media minds of his generation, a man who built the Fox Network, mentored both Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and brought the world Saturday Night Fever and The Simpsons--for a man who has accomplished all that and made himself hundreds of millions of dollars in the process, Barry Diller sure acts as if he has something left to prove...
Biondi is the latest of several mega-media executives who have recently been toppled, with little or no warning, from major posts. Jeffrey Katzenberg, longtime chairman of Walt Disney Studios, left in 1994 after a falling-out with corporate chairman Michael Eisner. Michael Schulhof, head of Sony Corp.'s U.S. operations, was ousted last month after clashing with his Japanese bosses. Michael Fuchs, the longtime head of HBO and (for six months) chairman of the Warner Music Group, was fired in November by Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin...
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...
...hire capped the busiest period in Hollywood's game of musical moguls since 1984, when Barry Diller moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox, Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg 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...
...distribution." From Eisner's enemies came praise through clenched teeth; it would be hard to avoid doing business with the man now that he presided over so vast an empire. "If you had asked me Sunday night as I went to bed, 'Is Eisner paying $19 billion for ABC?'" Katzenberg said, "I would have said to you, 'Get your head examined.' That's how much I know...