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...self-servicing." That is clear enough from the author's portrayal of the first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...
Last week the old culturist and the old commercialist got together. Norton Simon Inc. announced that it had agreed to acquire Susskind's Manhat tan-based Talent Associates Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary. Although Si mon remains his conglomerate's biggest stockholder, he has left its active man agement largely to Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks...
Retired Mouth. As Talent Associates' president, Susskind shares that expec tation. Privately held by himself and two equal partners, Daniel Melnick and Leonard Stern, the company had rev enues last year of about $15 million, and its profits were in "the seven-figure category." That was a vast improvement over past years, when Talent Associ ates suffered in no small part because of its voluble boss's knack for alien ating network brass. But Susskind has learned to confine his contrariness large ly to his still running TV talk show...
...powerful financial helpmate, a big brother," Susskind now hopes to plunge more deeply into moviemaking by bidding for bestselling books and other high-priced material. He will have the incentive as well as the resources...
Under the terms of the get-together, Susskind and his partners will receive an undisclosed amount of Norton Si mon Inc. stock, run Talent Associates for at least five years...