Paramount chief Brad Grey has just responded to former management client Garry Shandling's testimony this morning in the Pellicano wiretapping trial:
"I am extremely saddened by Garry’s recollection of events dating back more than a decade. His representation is very different than what I remember and what I know to be true. Garry and I had a long personal and professional relationship, which frankly ended when he hired David Boies, and sued me and Brillstein Grey for $100 million. His actions forced us to hire our own lawyer -- Bert Fields -- and our friendship was overtaken by a legal process that was directed by lawyers and which ended with an equitable settlement. Even though we haven’t spoken since that time, he remains one of the most talented people I have known and I wish him only the best."
Bullllllshiiiiiittttt.
Perception is everything.
It’s easy for Grey (and his staff of PR writers) to sit behind a computer and use words like “recollection”, “representation” and “his actions” to sway public opinion, but Garry said his piece IN COURT WITH THE THREAT OF PERJURY hanging over his head. Let’s see Grey in court using that kind of PR language and see how far it gets him until the Judge forces him to answer questions factually.
Comment by A dena — March 13, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
And you thought the writer’s strike and upcoming SAG conflagration was going to be tough, eh Brad?
Comment by P. Lee — March 13, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
Typical Californian, He figures saying he is nice than actually being honest in the first place.
Look Ma , I,m a nice guy. I don’t talk mean like Gary.
A wus and a thief
Comment by blackball gavin — March 13, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
That’s kind of how Brad talks in real life.
Self-sanctimonious to the bitter end.
Comment by Jamie — March 13, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
Brad Grey for US PRESIDENT. NOT. What a joke. Nice rebuttal. Sounds like he’s passing on a movie idea. It’s amazing with the staff of talented (cough cough) people he works with that that is the best he could come up with? We all know what went on over at Brillstein Grey. Go get him Shandling.
Comment by phildaleduckie — March 13, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
When Grey testifies to this under oath and threat of perjury in open court, it might be due consideration. Otherwise, it’s just another tall-taled rant from a very short man seated in the Peanut Gallery.
Comment by David C. — March 13, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
What a putz he is. He’s only saddened it’s true and it was exposed publicly. Will Grey be forced to testify? And will the fed lawyer cross-examine him or go easy on him? Pellicano won’t be tough on Grey because Anthony hopes to get out eventually and he’ll want Grey to do him some favors. Wait until Bo Zenga testifies that will be even more entertaining. It’s too bad Fields and Ovitz won’t be grilled either, the feds will have to go easy on them too in order to convict Pellicano. There should be additional charges against Grey, Fields, Ovitz because they are the ones who hired the Pelican to do his dirty work and they knew he was breaking numerous laws to get them dirt.
Comment by Anonymous — March 13, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
Memo to Pellicano; Subject: Brad Grey, Mike Ovitz, Bert Fields. Time to turn in those Matlock and Perry Mason DVDs and bone up on your Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. Six-two-and-even, they’re selling you out, kid. Wake up and smell the roses, Pelican. Read that note pinned to your cell window, flip and take take the deal or you’ll be a canned mackerel with a shelf life of 99 years. What a shamus.
Comment by Newtzapoop — March 13, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
I worked for Brillstein Grey Entertainment in the mid nineties. I wanted to work for the company for one reason and one reason only: their logo was on the end of The Larry Sanders Show.
(and I think Sopranos creator David Chase has said the same thing — the Sanders show is what made him want to work with BGE.)
TV was a lot different back then, and that show just stuck out from the herd as being produced by incredibly innovative and creative people.
I don’t think I’m violating the confidentiality agreement i signed when I worked there in saying that, back then, Brad Grey was an inspiring, serious minded leader, respectful and unusually generous to all the employees there, and made sure time and time again that the company was in business with some of the finest talent in show business. Hegave almost everybody a seat at the table, too, even the interns and the mailroom guys. You felt like you were part of something big just plain good when you were around Brad.
At the time, within the company, he was known as a reserved family man, devoted to his wife, kids and friends, who would step in front a bullet for any of the clients, especially Gerry.
But the Brad Grey you hear about now, the one we’ve been hearing about since Gerry’s suit started nine years ago, seems like a completely different guy. I want to know what the hell happened to the man we looked up to thirteen years ago, because this sounds like a completely different person, one I’m kind of ashamed to have been associated with.
Comment by INterested Observer — March 14, 2008 @ 12:36 am
Grey=Douche.
Bet that 10 mil you had to pay Shandling hurt your sanctimonious view of yourself if not your wallet.
Paramount used to be a lovely place to work.
Comment by e — March 14, 2008 @ 7:25 am
http://www.FamilyLawCourts.com
Unfortunately most of the comments miss the point when it comes to perjury. Perjury is Seldom if ever prosecuted in criminal cases; and never from say, Family Court which is a pr phrase for Divorce Court.
and fyi….Family Court is also known as “The Perjury Palace.”
See what the so called “catch” of the Real Housewives of Orange County, George Peterson, is doing in Family court to his original wife. That’s the reality and it isn’t pretty.
Comment by Bonnie — March 14, 2008 @ 9:34 am
OK, everybody, just remember it’s all about Bonnie now.
Comment by Alex — March 14, 2008 @ 10:26 am
Nope. Certainly not, Alex.
It’s simply that people could benefit from a reality check during any discussion relating to “perjury” and what happens when people lie on the stand.
What happens is bumpkiss.
Cheers. Have a nice weekend - unless of course you’ve made other plans.
Comment by Bibbue — March 14, 2008 @ 10:55 am
Bonnie, you must be a kid. Suggest you read up on Watergate. The parellels in motives and methods of that case to this cesspool of criminality are quite similar. The threat of multiple perjury counts is what forced most of those crooks to plead guilty and rat out their pals.
Comment by David C. — March 14, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
The FBI are notoriously tough on perjury cases. People who think they can lie or bullshit their way out from under the miles of evidence in this case will be pissing themselves all the way to the clink.
Comment by BenFranklin — March 14, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Agreed. Isn’t the director of The Thomas Crown Affair remake still in prison for lying to the feds?
Comment by Sandy Daley — March 15, 2008 @ 9:37 am
Barak Obama should choose Brad Grey as his running mate. Liars make great rulers!
Comment by Jill — March 16, 2008 @ 8:09 pm