Business Hollywood-style

The New York Times carries a piece on the picture Michael Ovitz has drawn during testimony in the Disney trial of the Hollywood in which he operated. While this article attempts to point to and the idea that other media outlets will probably also reiterate is that Hollywood is a business, not an irrational Victorian parlour game.

Well, it's both. And the media loves to paint the second picture vividly, while stroking the egos and stock prices of the public entertainment conglomerates. Although the business of media is clearly a business, that tends to be more on the distribution and marketing side of the aisle. On the creative content side, there is not always rhyme or reason as to the whims of monetary infusion.