A Taxpayer Bailout for DreamWorks Animation?
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
It's been a miserable year for animation titan Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was marooned from his former producing partners and fleeced by Bernie Madoff. Now, oddly, comes troubled Bank of America to pitch in.
Katzenberg's Big Flub
Andrew Gumbel is the author of Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America.
The Motion Picture & Television Fund's hospital facility isn't in as dire financial straits as everyone thinks.
How Spielberg Got Away
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Why did DreamWorks leave Universal at the altar and run off with Disney? Kim Masters deconstructs the deal that stunned Hollywood.
The Best of Bernie
Ben Crair is an associate editor at The Daily Beast.
Benjamin Sarlin is a reporter for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
We searched the media to unearth the juiciest nuggets about the alleged Ponzi schemer-from the price of his manicures to the vanity plates on his accountant's car.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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