Saturday, September 24, 2005

Powell Bronfman
Edgar Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman - Overrated father, misunderstood son. By David Plotz:

Usually a few billion dollars in the bank inoculates you against bad press, but Edgar Jr. has been designated the movie industry's official idiot--a 42-year-old child who's squandering his family (and his shareholders') fortune on romantic Tinseltown fantasies. There is a feeling that any real media mogul--Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, Sumner Redstone, Rupert Murdoch--could eat Edgar Jr. for lunch and still have plenty of room for dessert.

A certain aura of creeping decay does surround the Bronfmans, and it is tempting to view them as a study in dynastic decline.