Apparantly, Brad Grey is a Browncoat by reginaroadie

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Apparantly, Brad Grey is a Browncoat

POSTED BY: REGINAROADIE
UPDATED: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:24
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:07 AM

Hey All

Just checking my sites now, and went over to imdb.com, where the top story was about Brad Grey, the new CEO at Paramount firing former FOX exec and Whedon betrayer Gail Berman. Here's the story.

Berman Toppled at Paramount
Another shake-up has jolted the executive peak of the Paramount mountain. The studio announced late Wednesday that Paramount Pictures President Gail Berman had resigned after 18 months -- with two years remaining on her contract. Allison Shearmur, co-president of production at Paramount, was also forced out. Paramount Chairman and CEO Brad Grey had personally selected Berman to become the studio's No. 2 executive shortly after he succeeded Sherry Lansing in 2005. But Berman's background had been television, not film (she had previously served as entertainment president at Fox) and reportedly exhibited many of the high-handed traits associated with TV executives. Today's (Thursday) New York Post quoted a source as saying, "The town never adapted to working with her." And the Los Angeles Daily News commented that she and Grey "had reportedly been experiencing a rapidly deteriorating working relationship," especially following Paramount's acquisition of DreamWorks Pictures, which reduced the importance of Berman's role at the company. She will not be replaced. In an interview with today's Los Angeles Times, Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone supported Berman's ouster. "If Brad decided she was not for Paramount, then Brad was right," he said. "Brad's the boss." But Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen, in a report to clients dispatched late Wednesday, said that she viewed Berman's exit as "an incremental negative" for Viacom, Paramount's corporate parent, "as it appears management turmoil continues. ... Ms. Berman is an extremely creative executive."

I just like that bit about rapidly deteriorating working relationship and "The town never adapted to working with her."

I wonder if we Browncoats should get together and send Brad Grey some flowers, just to show our gratitude. And maybe some flowers to Berman as well witha card that says "Do good things, good things happen. Do bad thing, bad things happen."

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Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:24 AM

JWHEDONADDICT

I thought I heard somewhere recently (possibly the fan documentary Done the Impossible)that it's generally believed that she tried and failed to change her boss's mind (about FIREFLY, since he wasn't a fan and didn't understand or care about the show) and eventually had to give up. That despite this, her friendship with Joss still ended after he asked her for permission to shop the show elsewhere.

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