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"This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. "

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Mondo Stars editors from Boulder Colorado USA (December 2, 2010)
Barry Diller Steps Down as IAC CEO

-- Variety reported on December 2, 2010:

"Barry Diller said Thursday that he is stepping down as CEO of IAC and that John Malone's Liberty Media has sold its entire stake in the company.

Diller will remain as chairman, but Greg Blatt, most recently CEO of IAC's Match.com, will take over as CEO. "It's been clear to me for some time that this company needs a full time aggressive and aspirational executive in the CEO role," Diller said, adding that it does not mean he will not remain involved in the business.

Diller recently partnered with Newsweek's new owner Sidney Harman to combine the print newsweekly with Diller's online site The Daily Beast. It is not clear whether this new venture impacted Diller's decision."

Mondo Stars editors from Boulder Colorado USA (September 30, 2010)
Barry Diller Resigns as Chairman of Live Nation

-- The New York Times reported on September 29, 2010:

"The merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster last year created an unusual executive power-sharing arrangement and united some of the media and music industry’s biggest egos in a single boardroom — a recipe, some predicted, for turmoil.

Those voices proved prescient this week.

At a board meeting on Tuesday in Los Angeles, Barry Diller, the billionaire media mogul who became chairman of Live Nation Entertainment after the merger, resigned after clashing with management over personnel and policy matters, according to two people briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously.

The company announced the departure in an unorthodox fashion. Instead of immediately issuing a statement, the company’s executive chairman, Irving Azoff, posted the news via Twitter on Wednesday morning. He first bashed the press, writing, “as usual the press reports are ridiculous.” He continued, “it was always Barry Diller’s intention to step down” as chairman during the first year of the merger.

According to one person involved in the process who was not authorized to speak publicly, however, some board members had already decided that they would seek to remove Mr. Diller as chairman if he did not choose to step down."

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I just hope Barry Diller can help me promote my granddaughter into modeling or movies, or just send us in the correct location.

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Killer Diller

Barry Diller is the CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the parent company of Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster and Match.com among others. Diller worked in the movie industry for decades before forming IAC. In 2005, Diller was paid a total of $469 million, making him the highest paid chief executive in America.

Diller grew up in Beverly Hills, and began his career in the mail room of Willian Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after one semester. He was hired by ABC in 1966 and was soon placed in charge of negotiating broadcast rights to feature films. By 1969, he was vice president in charge of feature films and program development. He created the ABC Movie of the Week;a series of 90-minute movies made for television.

In 1972 Diller was chief executive officer of Paramount Pictures Corporation. Television programs produced under Diller include Laverne & Shirley, Taxi, and Cheers. Films included Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

From 1984 until 1992, Diller worked as chairman and chief executive officer of 20th Century Fox, Inc. In 1992, he quit Fox to purchase a $25 million stake in the QVC teleshopping network, where he was CEO for two years.

Since 1995, Diller has been the chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp, which is the parent company of Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, Match.com, Citysearch and Ask.com, among others. He is also the chairman of Expedia, Inc., and has been on the board of The Coca-Cola Company since 2002.

Diller owns 2 percent of IAC but controls 56 percent of the voting stock, which may account for his "generous" compensation. He chooses the board of directors that decides how much to pay him.

Diller married Diane von Furstenberg in 2001, settling rumors that have circulated since the 1970s that he is gay. In addition to running her own fashion design business, von Furstenberg is on the board of directors of IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Diller has mentored people who became media executives who are dubbed, "The Killer Dillers," including Michael Eisner, Dawn Steel (the first woman to run a movie studio and future head of Columbia Pictures), Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Scott Mitchell.

Barry Diller Poll Results

This poll ran from August 31 to September 6, 2009.

Mondo Stars Poll Results

"There is not that much talent in the world." True 124/32% False 268/68%

Votes: 392

Barry Diller, the president of InterActiveCorp and former CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox, quoted by Scott Rosenberg in his blog at Salon.com, posted on October 6, 2005. Rosenberg wrote:

Barry Diller was the kickoff interview here at Web 2.0 yesterday afternoon, which was more than a little odd, because Barry Diller does not appear to have anything to do with Web 2.0 — if, by Web 2.0, we mean, as conference hosts John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly said, an approach that involves innovation on the Web platform, an “architecture of participation,” lightweight business models, Web services with no lock-in, and so on.

No one has been smarter than Diller about rummaging through the broken and disused parts of old-Web flameouts and using them to assemble money-generating machines in relatively dull markets. And yet he has had no success — maybe even no interest — in creating innovative services or bringing new ideas to the Web. His company is a sort of Night of the Living Dot Com Dead.

Diller does not suffer fools — or interviewers — gladly, and he reserves a special sardonic disdain for tech-industry hype. That can be refreshing. I first heard his digital-skeptic act over a decade ago, at a panel at the old Intermedia conference in 1993, where he shared the stage with Bill Gates, Apple’s John Sculley and cable mogul John Malone. While the other spouted visionary platitudes, Diller simply fumed at their disconnection from his reality. (I wrote about the event for my old paper, here.)

Today, Diller is still wearing his skeptic’s hat; at Web 2.0 he turned it on those among the new wave of Web visionaries who have dared to dream that our new publishing and searching technologies might help bring a wider conversation into being beyond control of the broadcast world’s gatekeepers. “There’s just not that much talent in the world,” Diller says, “and talent almost always outs.”