Comments on: David Geffen Goes After LA Times Again? Is He In "Serious Discussions" With Zell? Or Have They Not Spoken In Months?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:51:38 +0000

Owning The LA Times and profitably running The LA Times are two distinct activities. I am a subscriber and I enjoy getting my (ever-shrinking) LA Times in the morning. However, the quality has declined somewhat and I have to wonder why the hell anyone would want to buy a newspaper company now, whether it’s Sam “buy your own newspaper, David” Zell or David “nobody says no to me, Sam…Nobody!” Geffen.

By: David Ellis

David Ellis — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:44:20 +0000

I don’t suppose the owner of LA’s
biggest newpaper would have any
conflicts with the film industry coverage,
would he?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:03:58 +0000

It really doesn’t matter who owns the paper. Look around. Nero has already fiddled and Rome has already burned. Game over!

By: Rosebuddy

Rosebuddy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:29:30 +0000

I’m trusting they didn’t hire you on your writing skills, Chris. Geffen is equal parts indulged and indulgent. He’s right about the Clintons but, truly, is Obama really all-things-to-all-people? Suffice to say, it suits Geffen’s purposes to say that he is. On the LAT, that rag is dying a slow, painful death. I actually cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago. I can’t believe I did it but I just don’t read it anymore and all that paper was clogging up my blue bin. Geffen would run it like a (not so) benevolent dictator but at least money wouldn’t be an issue. That is until he starts drowning in the red ink. But at least the old tart would have a few good years left, before the Spanish Dancer gets her.

By: Chris Jackson

Chris Jackson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:58:10 +0000

No one fucks with David Geffen, I have personally seen what that man can do to a Presidential candidate. My candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for whom I worked on her Advance Team here in Los Angeles is getting her clocks cleaned by Geffen all over the country.

Geffen fought back against the Clintons and backed Obama for them not supporting his causes and broken promises made to him.

Then Geffen somehow gets the Los Angeles Times to endorse Obama over Hillary which put Ron Burkle on notice to not bid against him for the Los Angeles Times. Ron Burkle is the Clintons diehard supporter. (15 million and counting)

Geffen even broke rank with Steven Spielberg, also a diehard Bill Clinton supporter and a fan of Hillary to support Obama.

No one says no to Geffen.

Geffen stalks his prey like a Gladiator in the Roman Colosseum. On second though, he’s Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the fifth and last Roman Emperor. Nero burned down Rome as he watched the city go up in flames he played on his fiddle.

I had the pleasure of meeting Geffen on a video tape shoot we did for Terry Semel and Joel Silver back in the 90s. We were all given specific instructions to never mention Michael Ovitz’s name to Geffen, if we wanted to have him in the project. We didn’t peep a word and both Michael Ovitz and David Geffen appeared in the legendary video together. Though, Michael Ovitz did upstaged everyone playing Batman, with Ron Meyer playing Ronnie. Ovitz stole the show! (I still got that tape)

Geffen was a cool hang on the day of the shoot. He was warm and sincere person. In fact, I found him to be a natural born charmer and almost a Divine being.

I briefly met Geffen again while doing Advance work for Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 Democratic Convention. Geffen marched into the Centruy Plaza Hotel like he was a 5-Star General leading a charge up a hill.

I could just imagine who gave that order to the Vice President… to kiss Tipper, dipped her down like she’s the Prom Queen during the Convention on live television.

I had a feeling Geffen directed that love story.

Sam Zell, you might as well hand over the front door keys to the Los Angeles Times because Geffen is GOD. And no one in their right mind says no to GOD.

And Geffen said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Geffen saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. Geffen called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Be it ever so crumbly, there’s no place like Rome.

By: Citizen Kane Geffen

Citizen Kane Geffen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:39:08 +0000

I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. I’ll be able to influence national politics I might even run for public office myself. Rosebud! Rosebud!

By: Bob F.

Bob F. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:25:41 +0000

‘Bored’ Hollywood mogul has yet another epiphany about limits of his/her current power and influence in the world. So what else is new?