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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Barry Diller has been a Hollywood player since his days in the mail room of the William Morris Agency, a job he landed with the help of Marlo Thomas. A few years later, he invented the ABC movie of the week. Today he is the chairman of Silver King Communications, after having once run Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox studios. A former CBS executive and celebrity biographer, Mair (Oprah Winfrey, LJ 11/15/94) has written the first Diller biography, which attempts to chronicle the successes and failures of this media mogul. Unfortunately, the reader gains no insight into Diller's personality and his drive to influence American media. The book is a set of overheard anecdotes narrowly focused on business dealings in the media industry. There is barely a mention of Diller's family background or personal life, essentail for a biography of such an important personality. Not recommended.?Lisa N. Johnston, Sweet Briar Coll. Lib., Va.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
The virtual inventor of the movie-of-the-week and the miniseries, Diller is certainly worthy of green-eyed, wary respect, and he comes off rather well in Mair's enthusiastic biography. A programming wunderkind at ABC, Diller was later Rupert Murdoch's collaborator in launching the Fox network. Since then, his leaving Fox, acquiring shopping network QVC, and embarking on a network poaching safari have baffled industry observers. Early on, Mair compares Diller to legendary movie producer Irving Thalberg (a business success), and later, to Orson Welles (a, well, nonbusinessman), as a do-everything creative genius. Diller's playmates Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, and Michael Eisner (not to mention Simpsons creator Matt Groening) pop up in passing and for comparison's sake, but mostly Mair tells the stories of Diller's triumphs, in the process giving ample information to entertain, amuse, and inform both those who applaud and those who deplore his success. Can one reasonably expect more from a media mogul bio? Mike Tribby --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Barry Diller has been a Hollywood player since his days in the mail room of the William Morris Agency, a job he landed with the help of Marlo Thomas. A few years later, he invented the ABC movie of the week. Today he is the chairman of Silver King Communications, after having once run Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox studios. A former CBS executive and celebrity biographer, Mair (Oprah Winfrey, LJ 11/15/94) has written the first Diller biography, which attempts to chronicle the successes and failures of this media mogul. Unfortunately, the reader gains no insight into Diller's personality and his drive to influence American media. The book is a set of overheard anecdotes narrowly focused on business dealings in the media industry. There is barely a mention of Diller's family background or personal life, essentail for a biography of such an important personality. Not recommended.?Lisa N. Johnston, Sweet Briar Coll. Lib., Va.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
The virtual inventor of the movie-of-the-week and the miniseries, Diller is certainly worthy of green-eyed, wary respect, and he comes off rather well in Mair's enthusiastic biography. A programming wunderkind at ABC, Diller was later Rupert Murdoch's collaborator in launching the Fox network. Since then, his leaving Fox, acquiring shopping network QVC, and embarking on a network poaching safari have baffled industry observers. Early on, Mair compares Diller to legendary movie producer Irving Thalberg (a business success), and later, to Orson Welles (a, well, nonbusinessman), as a do-everything creative genius. Diller's playmates Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, and Michael Eisner (not to mention Simpsons creator Matt Groening) pop up in passing and for comparison's sake, but mostly Mair tells the stories of Diller's triumphs, in the process giving ample information to entertain, amuse, and inform both those who applaud and those who deplore his success. Can one reasonably expect more from a media mogul bio? Mike Tribby --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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