Brady Grey is Toast
If the guy who hired you gets whacked, you're probably in trouble also...especially if the big guy who ordered the hit on your recently-departed boss is in one of those irascible, muscle-flexing, I'm-still- the-honcho-even-though-I'm-83 moods, which seems to be the case with Viacom chief Sumner Redstone.
By this usually reliable logic Paramount chairman Brad Grey, according to many of the journos who get all regularly hyperventilate about Hollywood hires and fires, is about to get capped just like Joey Gallo at Umberto's Clam House. Wait a minute, wrong analogy... Gallo didn't know it was coming. How about whacked like Burt Lancaster's "the Swede" in The Killers? And you know that if Grey is a goner, so is Paramount production president Gail Berman.
I've never found executive shuffles terribly exciting, but if you want to read what everyone's saying -- the list includes Hollywood Wiretap's Tom Tapp, Variety's Chris Gardner, Hollywood Reporter columnist Anne Thompson, and N.Y. Times reporters Laura Holson and Sharon Waxman -- have at it.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 6, 2006 at 12:56 PM
comment #1
Mark
says ...
98% of your readers haven't seen The Killers. It's No. 7 on all of our Netflix queues, unfortunatley meaning it might as well not even exist. (With movies constantly being added, movies placed No. 4 and above never make it home.)
A more accessible analogy would be Al Pacino getting called at the end of Donnie Brasco. Grey should put his watch somewhere where his wife can find it.
Posted by Mark
at September 6, 2006 1:09 PM
comment #2
Thrudvangar
says ...
So that's why I can never get Juggernaut. And I'm at Blockbuster. Thanks Mark.
What a shame that Pacino wasn't even nominated for that role.
Posted by Thrudvangar
at September 6, 2006 1:22 PM
comment #3
Dixon Steele
says ...
The stock already took a $5 hit when he dumped the respected Tom Freston. I'd be surprised if they ice Grey & Berman too. But at this point, you never know.
Plus Stacey Snider is already in the wings, as the LA Times reports today.
Posted by Dixon Steele
at September 6, 2006 1:56 PM