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Barry Diller Wrote One Hell Of A Mogul Memoir With ‘Who Knew’; Great Boardroom Tales Abound
Barry Diller Has Written A Heckuva Mogul Memoir With 'Who Knew'
Despite Diller’s best efforts to protect Bludhorn, the mogul was excoriated in a New York Magazine cover story that characterized him as “the Mad Austrian, sequestered on the 42 nd floor of the Gulf + Western Building, in the chairman’s office – cradling a tomcat in the crook of his elbow, with his back to the camera and his eye on the stock market.” The article gave full credit for Paramount’s success to Yablans and Evans. After unraveling the dysfunction at Paramount — $100,000 and half more than that in expenses to superagent Swifty Lazar simply for putting Yablans into the party social mix – Diller’s job was made easier in helping Francis Coppola find a classic movie from five hours of rough-cut footage of The Godfather Part II. Diller took that Fox job with the promise of 25% equity, though his assessment of the oversized mogul soured as he found out the truth about his empire: “As six feet four and weighing more than three hundred pounds, Marvin Davis qualified as a big man…except in terms of honesty and integrity.
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