Nikki Finke

Nothing about the current fervor to fight corporate sleaze is more amusing than the notion that big media and entertainment will obey the Leahy Amendment. Attached to the Senate‘s accounting-reform bill and sponsored by Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, the provision establishes a new 10-year felony for any attempt to defraud......

  When might a monopoly be a good monopoly? When it’s in the megaplex business. Movie theaters are, indeed, upgrading. True, no one‘s swapping straight-backed seats for velvet chaises so movie patrons can prop themselves in the grape-peeling poses of the ancient Romans. But small screens, sticky floors and thin......

THE LATEST IN HOLLYWOOD IS golf lingo. Alpha male-of-the-moment Jeff Kwatinetz's priapic posse at The Firm incessantly use metaphors about "going into the bunker" to "tee up" another deal. The words represent a cultural marriage between the entertainment business and investment banking since Kwatinetz keeps growing his company by gobbling......

BARRY DILLER FOUND IT PATHETIC. RON Meyer considered it foolish. And David Geffen loved it in the way a lion king relishes the kill. The blurry faxed and re-faxed feature article whirred its way around Hollywood last weekend (one mogul even enlisted his wife to send it hither and yon)......