Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2012 Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 “The sun was warmer then.” This may be the last year I come here. If I was looking for a complete waste of time, I would have gone back to Comic-Con….
Day 1 – Disappearing Mogul Day 2 – The Acid Trip Day 3 – The Future ———————– Leaving (7/10/12): OK – I suppose I’m going to this thing. Herb called me acting like a kid before his 10th birthday party, all worried that no one was…
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…
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’,…
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…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2011 Day 1 — Day 2 — Day 2.5 – Day 3 [The following is a transcript of the speech Khan Manka, Jr. gave at Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference today. It has been transcribed from an audio recording…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference 2011 Day 1 — Day 2 — Day 2.5 – Day 3 ————————————– It’s no secret that most moguls love to be tanned and almost all have new, whiter, straighter teeth put in over their old, yellow, crooked teeth. Who…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference Day 1 — Day 2 – Day 2.5 – Day 3 ——————————- The sight of Harvey Weinstein in tight gym shorts is an image that I won’t soon forget. But let me back up. I am dictating this in a…
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…
Good morning. Following an all night film strategy brainstorming session, I am pleased to announce Manka Bros. has committed to produce a $250 million reimagining of the classic children’s fairy tale “Hey Diddle Diddle”. This is a mighty big bet for the studio and a…