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Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner
Simon & Schuster
April 1994
On Sale: April 11, 1994
Featuring: Steve Ross
400 pages
ISBN: 0671725742
EAN: 9780671725747
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
From the best-selling author of The Predators' Ball comes
the story of the most flamboyant businessman and dealmaker
of his generation, Steve Ross. When Steven Spielberg first
heard Steve Ross tell his life story, it was such a dramatic
rags-to-riches narrative that he thought it was a movie. In
a career that started in Brooklyn and spanned Wall Street,
Hollywood, and the Mafia, Steve Ross took his
father-in-law's funeral business and a parking lot company
and grew them into the largest media and entertainment
company in the world, Time Warner. In the upper strata of
American business that Ross reached before his death, he was
an anomaly. Outrageous, glamorous, charismatic, he presided
over an enterprise that was more medieval fiefdom than
corporate bureaucracy. He negotiated his enormous and
complicated deals, from movies and records to cable and
publishing, with shrewdness and brilliance. He rewarded his
favorite aides and sidekicks extravagantly; he courted
Hollywood stars like Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg
with luxurious gifts; he charmed and outsmarted his rivals.
Ross used whateveror whomever - it took to romance someone
into making a deal. He saved himself and let his best
friend, Jay Emmett, take the fall in the government's
Westchester Premier Theatre investigation. While Atari was
hemorrhaging money in the early '80s, Ross announced a stock
buy-in to boost the price, and then sold off his own stock
for a gross of more than $20 million before announcing the
company's failure. The principles upon which Ross built his
domain would not be taught in any business school, and many
of his peers were convinced that Ross's ways would lead to
his, and his company's undoing. But it was those very
attributes - combined with mathematical wizardry and vision
(or what one friend called "the ability to see around
corners") - that enabled Ross to best most adversaries,
outnegotiate every dealmaker, confound his critics, and
ultimately create the Time Warner emp In a career that began in Brooklyn and spanned Wall Street,
Hollywood, and the Mafia, Ross built his father-in-law's
funeral business and a parking lot company into Time Warner,
the largest media and entertainment company in the world.
Hard-hitting and compulsive reading, this book takes you
into the heart of what made this arrogant yet irresistible
man tick.
Comments
2 comments posted.
Re: Master Of The Game
However, in the key battles you will not be to laugh. "While I was
playing, I wasted all my fingers and broke the keyboard!" - it's just
about Epistory - Typing Chronicles. Fixed important fights as survival in
the arena, where you need to stand up against the waves of enemies.
They attack from all sides simultaneously, and you need to print the
right words as soon as possible to kill the evil creature, because our
heroine dies from one touch of any enemy.
(Anna May 10:44am May 20, 2018)
Enemies often belong to different elements. That is, for example, to
shoot magic and kill an ice flies, you will first have to type the word
"ice", and then as soon as possible to print some other "bucket / plush /
eater." Then from somewhere on the left crawling fire creeps out, and
you have to quickly type "fire", switching to another magic.
(Anna May 10:45am May 20, 2018)
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