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Peter Bart: Barry Diller’s New Memoir Might Be The True Final Reckoning
Barry Diller’s memoir Who Knew details his adventures as an executive at Paramount, Fox, the Fox Network, Universal and Vivendi, Peter Bart writes.
As a central figure in so many Hollywood wars, Diller’s memoir is being read with interest by combatants and victims who admired his ambitions but distrusted his morals and management skills. Bluhdorn had become fed up with the destructive infighting between Bob Evans and Frank Yablans (personal note: I had earlier quit my job at Paramount for the same reason). In his first Paramount episodes Diller believed studios were too dependent on storied filmmakers and their pet projects and steered his slate away from the Godfathers and Rosemary’s Babys to favored fare like Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance.
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