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‘Is He Going to Ruin My Day?’
How Matthew Belloni became the must-read columnist for Hollywood’s executive class.
Every show-business era has its inside voice, who in some capacity helps shape the world it covers: Parsons and Hopper, who invented the spectacle of celebrity gossip in the early 20th century; Nikki Finke, the tempestuous Deadline founder who waged a holy war on the town’s egos. Belloni was first to break the news that the French billionaire (and Salma Hayek’s husband) François-Henri Pinault was looking to acquire a majority stake in CAA, months before the eventual $7 billion deal was announced by mainstream publications in September. Recent weeks have seen Shari Redstone, whose family controls Paramount, administering its last rites; the company announced layoffs and budget cuts as it seeks a new owner, on the shortlist of which is Skydance, the production house led by the tech magnate Larry Ellison’s son.
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