OK, and this is the book I read before the Froome-doggery. Here’s an article from entertainment weekly entertainingly enough
http://www.ew.com/article/1996/06/07/hit-run-how-jon-peters-and-peter-guber-took-sony-ride-hollywood
about this. I was looking at a Don Simpson biography but went with this on the recommendation of the Internet.
The recounting of how the two players reached the top is all too believable, it’s the sums of money involved which aren’t. This is however a bit of a chore to read at points and enviably dissolves into a review of dysfunctional boardroom dynamics. Which anyone who works in an office will reluctantly recognise.
ES Waves 