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To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy mergers are all alike, but every unhappy merger is unhappy in its own way. You'll find plenty of both packed in our seventh annual Power Issue, with enough enigmatic characters and shocking plot twists to fill a Russian novel. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting, Seagram and MCA, Disney and ABC, Westinghouse and CBS -- we peek through the keyholes of Hollywood's biggest corporate marriages and tell you how their honeymoons are going.
Speaking of war and peace, you'll read about friction at Disney, between Michaels Eisner and Ovitz, as well as the escalating cable-TV battles between News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and Time Warner's Gerald Levin and Ted Turner.
We'll check in on the existential crisis on the Sony lot, where even the company cossacks are praying that John Calley, Jeff Sagansky, and Lucy Fisher can perform a long-needed resurrection. We'll also deliver a Q&A with former Fox and Paramount honcho Barry Diller (a man who seems to personify power, even though he remains on the sidelines), take a look at power's next generation (featuring Eastwood's, Eisner's, and Murdoch's kids, plus others who are taking their birthrights very seriously), and serve up a special Power Diet (guaranteed to make you a lean, mean, Armani-suited machine).
Finally, there are reports on who's rising, who's falling, and who appears to have stalled -- all of that in addition to the 101.5 most powerful people in entertainment. And get this: One of them isn't even out of diapers yet! Bet you never read that in Tolstoy.
