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"Two years after Paramount purchased DreamWorks, Hollywood is transfixed by one of the nastiest breakups ever. As Sumner Redstone and David Geffen went to war (over Steven Spielberg?), the author got it from both sides. "There was a time, not long after Sumner Redstone came to Southern California four years ago, when the world must have seemed rosy and new and full of hope. At 82, an age when peers were dead or lying in retirement homes, Redstone had everything a mogul could want: between his two main companies, Viacom and CBS, he owned a television network, cable channels by the score, and not one Hollywood movie studio but two—Paramount, with its sprawling lot, seized in a takeover fight 10 years before, and his newest acquisition, DreamWorks SKG, home to Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. On top of all that, Redstone had a sparkling young wife and a new home in a gated community above Beverly Hills, where he spent his days tending tropical fish, taking phone calls, and shaving nude in his hot tub. Sylvester Stallone lived next door. He ate out every night. Life was good. "Not anymore."
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