Jerry Levin has come out of retirement. The former Time Warner CEO has teamed with his wife, the CAA agent-turned-psychologist Laurie Ann Levin, to form The Levin Center For Parkinson's Transformational Health. It is an enterprise dedicated to removing the stigma and working on the emotional well-being of Parkinson’s sufferers. Since I began writing Deadline articles several years ago with Levin, he has revealed more of himself on this site than any mogul I can think of…...
- 9/25/2015
- Deadline TV
Jerry Levin has come out of retirement. The former Time Warner CEO has teamed with his wife, the CAA agent-turned-psychologist Laurie Ann Levin, to form The Levin Center For Parkinson's Transformational Health. It is an enterprise dedicated to removing the stigma and working on the emotional well-being of Parkinson’s sufferers. Since I began writing Deadline articles several years ago with Levin, he has revealed more of himself on this site than any mogul I can think of…...
- 9/25/2015
- Deadline
Former Time Warner chairman Jerry Levin occasionally lends his point of view to Deadline on issues that move him. Those have ranged from questioning the wisdom of Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to take over Time Warner, to revealing in the wake of Robin Williams’ death that Levin too had Parkinson’s disease, and what role it might have played in Williams’ state of mind when the entertainer ended his own life. Like many, Levin is right now processing the latest shooting…...
- 7/24/2015
- Deadline TV
Former Time Warner chairman Jerry Levin occasionally lends his point of view to Deadline on issues that move him. Those have ranged from questioning the wisdom of Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to take over Time Warner, to revealing in the wake of Robin Williams’ death that Levin too had Parkinson’s disease, and what role it might have played in Williams’ state of mind when the entertainer ended his own life. Like many, Levin is right now processing the latest shooting…...
- 7/24/2015
- Deadline
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
Bart: I don’t want to sound nostalgic, but do you remember the days when working in the entertainment business was considered a good job? When I was first hired by a movie studio, my journalistic friends all said, ‘Man, you’ve got it made.’
Fleming: Since you take a vow of poverty to be a journalist, I’ve thought that about journalist pals who took studio PR jobs.
Bart: That’s definitely the past. Here’s the reality of the moment: Warner Bros. has started a new wave of firings. Sony is still in the middle of its cost cutting. Overall show biz employment (including music) is down 19 percent over five years. The big talent agencies are...
Bart: I don’t want to sound nostalgic, but do you remember the days when working in the entertainment business was considered a good job? When I was first hired by a movie studio, my journalistic friends all said, ‘Man, you’ve got it made.’
Fleming: Since you take a vow of poverty to be a journalist, I’ve thought that about journalist pals who took studio PR jobs.
Bart: That’s definitely the past. Here’s the reality of the moment: Warner Bros. has started a new wave of firings. Sony is still in the middle of its cost cutting. Overall show biz employment (including music) is down 19 percent over five years. The big talent agencies are...
- 9/22/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Exclusive: As we watch Rupert Murdoch attempt a colossal Time Warner takeover, who better to evaluate its merit than Jerry Levin. He steered Time Warner as chairman/CEO for many years, adding Ted Turner and AOL along the way. A retired philanthropist and chairman of StartUp Health, Levin is still paying attention and is therefore better suited than most to explain the complexities of Murdoch’s ambitious plan and its far-reaching impact. He was gracious with his time and wasn’t interested in sugarcoating, so buckle up. Deadline: Rupert Murdoch sees a match in Fox and Time Warner. All I see is a […]...
- 8/2/2014
- Deadline
This story first appeared in the Aug. 1 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Jerry Levin knows how wrenching it can be to merge two giant media companies. In 2000, the then-ceo of Time Warner appeared onstage at a press conference with Steve Case, then-chairman of AOL, to announce a $164 billion merger. The news stunned both Hollywood and Wall Street. AOL Time Warner stock soon plummeted, shareholders revolted and Jeff Bewkes, Time Warner's current CEO, would later call the deal "the biggest mistake in corporate history." Now Time Warner is dealing with a new suitor in
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- 7/23/2014
- by Alex Ben Block, Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A few months back, the White House announced the creation of Startup America, a public-private partnership to accelerate entrepreurialism in the U.S., chaired by AOL cofounder Steve Case. Now Case's old business partner, former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, is helping start a health-specific variation on Startup America, called Startup Health.
Startup Health will focus on new companies in the health and wellness space. The goal is to provide entrepreneurs with the information and support they need to go from idea to sustainable business. The organization is being created by OrganizedWisdom, a health information site that Levin has invested in.
"A lot of the talent that is coming out of schools and being put to work today is going into gaming or social commerce," OrganizedWisdom CEO Steven Krein tells Fast Company. Startup Health wants to change that. "It's about getting the developers and investors to start putting their talent...
Startup Health will focus on new companies in the health and wellness space. The goal is to provide entrepreneurs with the information and support they need to go from idea to sustainable business. The organization is being created by OrganizedWisdom, a health information site that Levin has invested in.
"A lot of the talent that is coming out of schools and being put to work today is going into gaming or social commerce," OrganizedWisdom CEO Steven Krein tells Fast Company. Startup Health wants to change that. "It's about getting the developers and investors to start putting their talent...
- 6/9/2011
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
The horror title review site Upcoming Horror Movies has announced the DVD release of the series The Haunted. Apparently The Haunted released in 2002 with Matthew Fox (Lost) in the lead. The series ran for one season until cancellation and now these ill-fated episodes show sporadically on HDnet (Wiki). If you are also unfamiliar with the series a synopsis is below.
The plot summary for The Haunted (2002):
"Police officer Frank Taylor had the perfect job and perfect family. After his son's unsolved abduction, his life, marriage and career disintegrate. He leaves the force to become a private investigator specializing in missing and abducted children cases. His ex-wife has come to terms with the loss of their child, but Frank is obsessed with one day finding their son.
One day Frank's life is forever changed while trying to apprehend Simon, a man linked to several child abductions who eludes the police.
The plot summary for The Haunted (2002):
"Police officer Frank Taylor had the perfect job and perfect family. After his son's unsolved abduction, his life, marriage and career disintegrate. He leaves the force to become a private investigator specializing in missing and abducted children cases. His ex-wife has come to terms with the loss of their child, but Frank is obsessed with one day finding their son.
One day Frank's life is forever changed while trying to apprehend Simon, a man linked to several child abductions who eludes the police.
- 4/11/2010
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
It's bad enough that Time Warner shareholders have to be reminded every time they look at their stock portfolios how Jerry Levin drove that company into the ground 10 years ago this week. But this morning (see below) he was on CNBC talking like a lunatic. Bizarrely helping to hype a Wednesday 10 Pm special entitled "Marriage From Hell: The breakup of AOL Time Warner" that will portray him putting together the worst deal of the decade, Levin today gave this nutty explanation for why he failed: "Even though the stock was up at the time, there was a lot of tension, and i didn't deal with [...]...
- 1/4/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
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