November
7
Vanity Fair: Geffen vs. Redstone Redux, Coppola Speaks
They're at it again: rival billionaires David Geffen and Sumner Redstone trade barbs in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. Apparently, the DreamWorks vs. Viacom war is not over. Pamela McClintock reports.
Here's a sampling of the Bryan Burroughs piece:
In a series of talks with Vanity Fair beginning in August, Redstone’s men have blamed Geffen, the mischievous music turned film magnate, for practically every bad press notice they have received, even the reports of trouble in Redstone’s marriage. “This is all Geffen,” an executive close to Redstone told me. “We know what’s going on. He’s doing all of this. He’s relentless. He and Sumner, when they’re in a fight like this, it’s war. It’s war.”When I first relayed these sentiments to Geffen, he exploded. “Whoever said these things, they must be out of their minds,” he said, his voice rising with each syllable. “I am not responsible for the public discourse about Mr. Redstone at all. He is. To imply I have anything to do with his image problems is just shameful. The lawsuits with his children and the statements he has made on the record speak for themselves.”
But Geffen, who to his credit had no problem speaking on the record, was only warming up. “I don’t care for Sumner’s behavior,” he went on, “and I have that in common with a great many people in the entertainment business. I don’t like the way he treats people. Most of all, nobody is going to treat me or my partner [Spielberg] in that manner and stay in business with us. Nobody.”
The December issue also profiles Francis Ford Coppola; here's his online Q & A.
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