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    A few months ago I picked up a copy of Vanity Fair at the Los Angeles International Airport to help time pass on a flight to Minneapolis.  After flipping through endless collections of fashion advertisements, I found a delightful article written by Kim Masters, "It All Began at Paramount."  The segment from her book, "The Keys to the Kingdom: How Michael Eisner Lost His Grip" focuses on Paramount Pictures's 1980s all-star management team: Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

   ". . .on his first day, Katzenberg sat at his desk at the Gulf and Western offices in New York when suddenly he heard the harsh buzzing of Diller's intercom.  When he went to the boss's office, Diller pushed a thick stack of papers across the desk and said, "Tell me what you think."
    This was the manuscript of the Judith Rossner novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Katzenberg labored through it and returned to Diller.
    "I have no idea how you make this into a movie," Katzenberg said.  "It was all told from inside her mind."
    "That's not your job," Diller responded.  "That's what a filmmmaker will do.  Do you think it's a good story to make into a movie?"
    "Katzenberg tried again.  "I imagine women will be really interested," he said.
    "How would you know?" Diller snapped, "You're not a woman, are you?"
    Katzenberg looked down at his crotch, then back at Diller. "Not that I know of."
    "Your job is to go out and find ideas that interest you, that you love -not like- that you love sufficiently to put your career on the line, to have a level of passion to want to make something and to have the courage of your convictions.  There is no way you will ever know what a housewife in Kansas or a businessman in Chicago wants to see.  Your job is to find things that interest you . . . .  Then what you do is you say, 'Yes.'  You close your eyes, cross your fingers, and pray that there are millions of other people who feel the same way you do. Anytime you presume what someone else will like, you will lose."

   
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