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Friday, February 3, 2006 at 11:00 AM EST
Mark Cuban: Hollywood’s Headache
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By host Tom Ashbrook:

Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban drives referees nuts. The super-rich, mega-manic owner of the Dallas Mavericks is famed, and infamous, for his courtside rants in the full lather of NBA basketball — and he’s got the million-dollar fines to prove it.

But now, Mark Cuban — entrepreneur and tech-visionary — is shaking up the much bigger world of American media, and first of all, Hollywood.

Cuban’s pushing his mind and megabucks into movies that come out the same day in cinemas and on DVD, into high-definition television and a multi-tiered Internet. Hollywood hates it. He couldn’t care less.

Listen to a conversation wtih media mogul and media maverick, Mark Cuban.

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Mark Cuban, billionaire entertainment impresario

 
 

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