Description: Barry Diller offers a bird's-eye view of the revolution taking place today in the world of entertainment and communications. A battle is raging among the titans of movies and television that will determine how we communicate and entertain ourselves in the early years of the next century.Barry Diller, creator of a new entertainment empire, is either the next Ted Turner or Donald Trump of the media and entertainment industry, depending on who is doing the analyzing. He has been described as arrogant, brash, brilliant, overbearing, charming, and treacherous by those who know him.In truth, Diller is a highly complex man. In his own mind, he is an outsider, a man who has always been partly overshadowed by those he has worked for (Rupert Murdoch at Fox, Martin S. Davis at Paramount). The fallout from Diller's bid for Paramount, which kept his name in the headlines for most of 1993, was only a harbinger of the success to come. Diller will not be satisfied until he has emerged as the major player in the entertainment and communications industry, the one who writes the rules and sets the standards that others will follow.Born wealthy in Beverly Hills, he went on to serve as chairman of Paramount for ten years, where his battles with his boss, Martin S. Davis, achieved legendary status. Rupert Murdoch hired him to run Fox, a job Murdoch says he performed "brilliantly", launching Fox as the fourth network with such gritty counterculture programs as Married ... With Children, The Simpsons, and In Living Color.Diller now has the financial backing in his bid to dominate the communications industry. He knows he needs to act now, while the opportunity and the timing have come together forhim, or risk losing the momentum he has built. He is positioned to become the dominant p

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