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...Tartikoff's latest career move was actually in the works three years ago. Just before his accident, Tartikoff says, he was making plans to leave NBC and form his own production company. First the accident and then the offer from Paramount delayed the scenario. Now he talks excitedly about creating a broad- based production company. Says he: "I want buyers to look at Brandon Tartikoff not as a producer but as a studio...
...Tartikoff admits that he occasionally clashed with his superiors at Paramount, Stanley Jaffe and Martin Davis. "I didn't realize just how spoiled I had been during my last six years at NBC. Nobody contested my decisions, my choices, the schemes that I was up to. It was a little unsettling ((at Paramount)) to have to go up the hall every time I had to spend what some might regard as a considerable amount of money...
...Paramount he had to face another jarring life experience: failure, or something very close to it. Both Tartikoff and his bosses insist his resignation was voluntary, but his record was mixed at best. Though his tenure was too short to judge definitively, many of the movies he was most associated with (Coneheads, Leap of Faith, the low-budget holiday comedy All I Want for Christmas) were box-office disappointments...
...first time in his life, he can let his creative instincts lead him and show results," says CBS Entertainment president Jeff Sagansky, who worked under Tartikoff at NBC. "I haven't seen him this comfortable ever before." Another former protege, NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield, says Tartikoff seems "back in touch with the things he likes to do -- roll up his sleeves and really have a voice in the creative process...
...also back in touch with the Hollywood hurly-burly he abandoned 13 months ago. Tartikoff plans to keep his New Orleans base but expects to spend about 10 days a month in Los Angeles. Except for occasional visits to his old Saturday-morning softball game at a high school field in Brentwood, his L.A. sojourns are practically all work. "I have triple breakfasts and 18-hour days," he says. "What I've learned is that if you're organized enough and you're compulsive enough, you can make your 10 days count for 25 days of a normal person." Tartikoff...