![]() But the antics of these ancient media men - squabbling over the spoils of decades of movie theater and television riches - feel like the last hurrah of Old Hollywood. Abrams newest project is not a jaw-dropping sci-fi but a tense and brooding 1970s crime thriller. Shari ultimately succeeded in fending off the vultures, and Sumner died in 2020 at age 97, with Shari tearful and singing “My Way” at his burial. “Unscripted ” delivers the goods on what happened inside that castle but suffers without more of the business and cultural context. Abrams Alias Alias: The APO Series Similar Authors To J.J. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) So it all plays a bit like rats on the Titanic: an industry and Redstone, its elderly avatar, sinking after a century of debauchery and mismanagement. Recruited The Ghost Mind Games Namesakes Series By J.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Netflix, Amazon and YouTube were rendering obsolete the traditional TV oligopoly while MTV, Comedy Central and the other Redstone linear brands were being managed for margins, not the future, as their leader sat distracted in his castle in the hills. But a reader even moderately familiar with the entertainment business would know that all of this was going down as the Redstone empire, and Hollywood in general, was being upended by the digital revolution. ![]()
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