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...investors lining up? Because of the team's past. Because of the future it might hold: that DreamWorks will be the prototype plugged-in multimedia company of the new millennium. And because the exuberance of Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen is infectious. It suggests that there is still some Hollywood romance in the youthful determination of three middle-aged men to act like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the old MGM musicals, shouting, "Hey, guys, let's put the show on right here...
...truism that Hollywood is "a relationship business" is almost a joke. But to an artist-industrialist like Spielberg, the meeting of eyes, minds and enthusiasms is crucial. Iger had tried unsuccessfully to persuade Katzenberg last year to help him run the network, and he was one of the first to call when SKG was announced. Karma came into it too. It happened that at a White House dinner in October, when the three moguls sealed their agreement to become the Dream team, Iger was sitting on one side of Spielberg, Boris Yeltsin on the other (Yeltsin...
...million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some 6,000 titles...
...that the reality is that 50% of all marriages in America end in divorce. So, we'll all wait and see." This happens all the time in show business--when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924, Samuel Goldwyn had already been forced out of the company. At DreamWorks, Katzenberg is a man with a mission; the other two are in it for the fun, which could wear thin quickly. Spielberg's plans to move to New York City may be on hold. But even in California, he can't give 24 hours a day to this job; Capshaw...
Could one of the three get sandbox envy? That seems unlikely, since they revel in one another's company--kids finally in control of a $2 billion game. For decades they have played, potently, under other men's aegises. Spielberg had Sheinberg and Ross, Geffen had Ross, Katzenberg worked under Eisner for 19 years, until their rancorous divorce last summer after Eisner refused to name Katzenberg his second in command. Now the lads must come of age--be ready to play daddy, not dutiful son, and do their own mentoring. The bet here is yes. Katzenberg was a paternal nudge...