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...latest casualty in the Simpson case is the TV movie on the life of the former football star. Fox Network owner and media mogul Rupert Murdoch nixed the project because he was concerned that airing the film could make it difficult for O.J. to get a fair trial, according to the Hollywood Reporter, an entertainment industry newspaper...
Every star needs supporting actors. Simpson's have come, almost literally, from Central Casting. Brian Kaelin, with his sleepy-surfer blondness, is a part-time actor whose films include Beach Fever. Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy...
...network's programming. "CBS could have gotten a cable channel for almost nothing," says the TV-industry executive. "They would just have to have invested some start-up money. But to Tisch it didn't mean anything because he doesn't feel it in his gut, like a Murdoch or a Diller does. He walked away from every deal he was presented! He has no vision about what the mass-media business is going to be, no feeling for where the future...
...cash, little cachet. In Diller's first year at QVC, its revenues rose 14%. John Malone, the zillionaire head of Tele- Communications, Inc., had lured Diller to the home-shopping network at the end of 1992, shortly after he left Fox. Perhaps there had been a dispute with Murdoch, his boss, over a Diller request for equity in the company; perhaps he was just tired, as he said, of working for other people...
...Diller tangled with Martin Davis, chairman of Gulf & Western, which owned Paramount, and left the studio to become chairman of Fox. (The same year, Eisner and Katzenberg went to Disney; Mancuso stayed to run Paramount.) Murdoch, who bought the studio a year later, gave Diller the mandate to create a fourth prime-time network. That he did, with his patented management style: creative listening. "What Barry does," says Garth Ancier, Fox's TV programming chief under Diller, "is assemble teams of people and then bring them into the room to debate different ideas. He obviously ran the whole thing...