Patrick Goldstein on New Line Cinema’s Bob Shaye
by Andre Soares
Patrick Goldstein’s "Hollywood’s endangered entrepreneurs" in the Los Angeles Times:
"It’s hard to imagine New Line Cinema without Bob Shaye, its prickly paterfamilias. The company is being absorbed into Time Warner’s Warner Bros. film division, with Shaye and most of the employees being cast adrift. Long after he’d sold his company in 1993, Shaye continued to treat New Line as his personal mom-and-pop movie store.
"During the company’s Lord of the Rings heyday, Shaye would host a pre-Oscar party at his stylish home off Mulholland Drive. One night I found myself chatting with the New Line founder when one of his aides scurried over, eyes bright with big news. Shaye’s then boss, Time Warner chieftain Richard Parsons, had arrived. ‘Shall I bring him over?’ the aide asked breathlessly.
"Irritated at being interrupted, Shaye waved him away, saying, ‘He can wait.’
"As the curtain rings down on New Line, a bigger question remains: Is there still room for entrepreneurs in today’s corporate entertainment business? One thing seems certain. The new breed of entrepreneur will look very different from the generation that produced Shaye and others like him."
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Also, check out Goldstein’s "The Oscars require major surgery," in which he comes up with ideas on how to make the Oscarcast more (young) audience friendly.
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