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...which leads to what may be the most intriguing question of all: How does Consumer's Edge fit into Diller's long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network...
...CEOs who set them up? One can imagine--albeit with a bit of effort--some interactively televised descendant of Consumer's Edge and HSN merging with Silver King's stations and studio to become a force in 21st century media. In the absence of a brand name like Paramount or cbs, though, that would be a trick on a par with Diller's last one: building a fourth network on the backs of The Simpsons and Married...with Children...
...attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...executives involved are in business with one or the other of the two stars. Sony is profiting from Cruise's Jerry Maguire. Universal has signed Travolta for Primary Colors. Paramount released Cruise's Mission: Impossible. MGM distributed the Travolta hit Get Shorty. Warner has a project with Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman...
...Pilbeam's predecessor says maintaining the Core's philosophy is always of paramount concern...