And then, in case anyone forgot, he chased a reluctant Lawrence Frank for weeks to be his top aide, demanded that the Nets make him the top-paid assistant in the league…then exiled him about 15 minutes into the season.
- Appalling power play a fitting way for Kidd to exit Brooklyn, NYPost.com, June 28, 2017.
3. “Learn to read upside down.” It was one of the first pieces of advice I got when I began working at a major film studio, and it proved one of the best. The tip came from a slightly more seasoned friend and employee who was, like me, young and vaguely ambitious about a career in the industry. “That’s how you get all the information,” he explained, “when you’re bringing the executives their coffee or handing them mail.” And information is power. I learned that skill then, learned to quickly scan contracts and memos in the moment it takes to pass something across a busy person’s desk, quietly studying the way the business really worked. But while two decades later, the preferred method of obtaining information about what goes on behind closed doors in the entertainment world is an old-fashioned computer hack, it’s been fascinating the past several days to learn – long after my brief time in the movie business – that the personality dramas of it are still so much the same. And that information remains the most powerful weapon in Hollywood.
There’s much about the recent Sony hack that’s been truly upsetting and scary, especially for the multitude of lower level employees whose personal information has been compromised. But it has also been a rare peek behind the curtain of the dream factory, with new revelations every day about salary disparities, celebrity aliases and the not too pretty way that movies get made. It’s a world in which in which power plays are all in a day’s work and the phrases “The masturbatory call is a wank I have no time for” and “This will just spin even further out in Crazyland” are regular interoffice communications. That sounds about right.
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