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DreamWorks Remembers David Geffen as Loving, Studio-Shopping Father
5:22AM STV | A tender postmortem in today’s New York Times reminds the world yet again that seriously — like, really, this time — David Geffen is leaving DreamWorks. Having shepherded the monolith through the Hollywood establishment from conception to its first marriage (and divorce) before giving the frazzled bride away a second time in an arranged marriage to its dashing Indian suitor, Geffen’s tenure is remembered fondly by his ‘Works co-founders Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Not that they’ll admit to knowing what they’re doing without him. More »
The DreamWorks Deal: Steven Spielberg’s Dream Deferred or Just Plain Old Lies?
9:20AM STV | From the Dept. of Mildly Pressing Questions Worth Asking on A Slow Wednesday Afternoon comes this new query: “Why Is This DreamWorks-Reliance Deal Taking So Long?” It features an accompanying clock and everything — 63 Days, 18 Hours, 34 Minutes and counting! — to emphasise the hold-up since Indian conglom Reliance Big Entertainment was reported to be within weeks of saving Steven Spielberg and co. from Paramount. Indeed, what is taking so long, and why do so many sources supposedly in the know keep jumping the gun? More »
Play the ‘DreamWorks Free to Good Home’ Sweepstakes
8:50AM Defamer Hollywood | They say nobody in Hollywood knows anything, which is true in just about every situation but the one facing DreamWorks and its partners at Paramount — a pair about as likely to split in acrimony within the year as Nikki Finke is to wheeze “TOLDJA!” when it happens. Patrick Goldstein today offers a rough primer for the ‘Works/’Mount divorce, with enough oversights and elisions to make it dispensable (for starters, whither UA in the potential coupling of DreamWorks and MGM?) but thought-provoking enough to ask: Where will the ‘Works wind up? More »
8:45AM Mark | Having long ago elected Barack Obama the President of Hollywood, how will the industry react to Hillary Clinton’s win in California’s Democratic primary? Disappointed kingmaker David Geffen, despite having prematurely predicted victory for Obama, is not yet abandoning ship, even if DreamWorks partner Steven Spielberg is stubbornly sticking out a passionless political marriage with Clinton. Indeed, maybe it’s time Geffen starts thinking about his next move, like sitting down with Maureen Dowd for another one of those fun interviews before all of his friends start getting crazy ideas about jumping on the Hillary bandwagon. [Slate] More »
Redstone, Geffen, Spielberg Again Make Forbes’ List Of The Obscenely Wealthy
8:00AM Defamer Hollywood | As we can think of no better way to kick off the weekend than by contemplating the staggering wealth of the Hollywood multibillionaires who can buy and sell all of us like so much cattle, we spent some time with The Forbes 400, the magazine’s ranking of the absolute richest of the American rich, to check in on how some of the industry’s best-monied overlords are growing their intimidating cash hoards. More »
Graffiti Artist Reveals The Actual Reason David Geffen Won’t Return Your Calls
8:50AM Defamer Hollywood | You may at some point in your travels have stumbled upon the art of prvtdncr: Working primarily in spraypaint on somebody-else’s-building, the sloganeering graffiti artist throws up provocative phrases that are meant to hold a magnifying makeup mirror up to certain, unseemly facts about the true nature of Hollywood. As our friends at The WOW Report point out, BUTT magazine’s current L.A.-themed issue devotes eight pages to some of his creations, including a less-than-generous sentiment regarding the Most Powerful Gay in the Universe. More »
