Jim Gianopulos

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Sumner Redstone’s Holiday Party

Over the weekend, I went to Sumner Redstone’s Holiday Party at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank.  It was a pretty sad event with only a few of the invited guests bothering to show up. Sumner kept staring at the front door and mumbled over and…

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Gay Moroccan Poetry Is Not Going To Save Our Publishing Business

Last night, I had dinner with Cyrus Weinstein – President of the Manka Bros. Publishing Group. He informed me that his group is in ‘super-duper danger’ (as opposed to the ‘super danger’ he told me about last year) with books and magazine sales way down year-over-year (a ‘reverse hockey stick’,…

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Hollywood Is Out Of Visionaries

UPDATE:  And now we can add Bob Iger to the list below. The coward couldn’t stick it out like a real mogul would.  Real moguls don’t retire. ——– This morning, about 11:00, I had an epiphany. I was trying to think of someone in this…

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Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – Day 1

Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference 2011 Day 1 — Day 2 – Day 2.5 – Day 3 DAY 1 – TUESDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: My plane landed safely at Friedman Airport.  I was picked up on the tarmac by a self-driving Google car.  This scared the…

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Manka Bros. Would Like To Offer Jeff Zucker A Job

I have sold my Comcast stock. Frankly, I am stunned at today’s announcement that Jeff Zucker has been fired by Steve Burke at Comcast.  Little Stevie Burke (who was a Manka Bros. intern years ago in our Publishing Group) has some balls on him.  He’s…

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Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding

Now I know what it would be like to live in the Iraqi Green Zone.  It would suck. I am now safely on the deck of my Montauk house after a successful air lifting out of Rhinebeck yesterday afternoon. Before I was allowed on the…

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Going To Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding

UPDATE:  Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding I’m leaving the office for the weekend. I’m going to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in some God forsaken town called Rhinebeck, New York. I don’t know where it is and I don’t know the address. I was told I would be blindfolded…