The keys to the kingdom

Description

Like one of the movie moguls of old, Michael Eisner is a titan -- feared, powerful, and almost magically successful. After rising through ABC television and Paramount Pictures, he awoke the sleeping giant of Disney and sent it stomping across the entertainment landscape. But since the tragic death of Frank Wells in a helicopter crash in 1994, he has lacked -- for the first time in his career -- a colleague who could temper his personality.The result, writes Kim Masters, has been a slide into a Nixonian paranoia and isolation. In The Keys to the Kingdom, Masters crafts a gripping account of this larger-than-life story of larger-than-life hubris, combining an insightful analysis of power in Hollywood with a vivid, deeply researched narrative that brings the personalities, the enmities, and the corporate mayhem to life.

First Sentence

IT MUST HAVE been difficult, even frightening, for a poor little rich boy whose parents wanted so much for him and demanded so much from him.

Excerpt

IT MUST HAVE been difficult, even frightening, for a poor little rich boy whose parents wanted so much for him and demanded so much from him.

Description

"In The Keys to the Kingdom, Kim Masters has crafted an examination of how power is acquired in Hollywood - and how that power can become self-destructive. She takes us inside the executive suites and onto the studio sets, giving us a detailed look at how decisions are made about what appears on movie and television screens."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

• The keys to the kingdom: how Michael Eisner lost his gripW. Morrow2000-01-01
• Keys to the KingdomPaperbackCollins2001-08-01
• Keys to the KingdomCollins2001-08-01
• Keys to the KingdomHarperCollins Publishers2007-01-01
• The Keys to the KingdomElectronic resourceHarperCollins2007-01-01
• Keys to the KingdomHarperCollins Publishers2009-01-01