Last week, some steps from Manhattan Little IslandPeople enjoying sunlight on the high line made very little notice to the person who helped to build this corner of the world, which was the famous businessman Barry Diller.
“When you are here, even if you are not very high, you are really high, [with] A completely different perspective of the city, “Diller said.
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Talk about various approaches: at 83, the delivery is now inviting people to keep another eye on himself HimNext week he will release his memoir, over ten years to make. In “Who knew” He takes the name of many names, tells wild stories, and tells his soul about the things he says that he vowed to talk publicly.
In his preamble he writes, “When I was young, I was very scared. I am not like this now. And I am very old to take care.”
afraid of what? “I was afraid of revealing the secrets,” he said. “I was afraid, I thought I am not worthy. I think, just afraid to reveal myself.”
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Diller says he was in grade school when he first realized that he could be gay. “Eleven or twelve years of age, or 13, I met on my bike, and I rode in Beverly Hills Public Library. And I looked for books on homosexuality. And whatever I read, what is, like, like, terrible. And I met on my bike and I rode home and thought, I am a condemnable personI mean, for a young child, it is not very good. ,
He was the first sexual encounter at the age of 16. I asked, “Did you tell your friends? Did you tell anyone about it?”
“Of course not! Are you joking? I didn’t tell myself,” Diller replied. “I mean, I thought – Oh, what did I think? Oh, I did this. I do not need to do it again.,
“I spoke this with a man, but is it its end?” I asked
“Yes, I don’t need to do this again,” said Diller. “And then a month later, I did. And then I knew.”
But at that time, he thought best to keep it secret. He ever vowed to lie about it, only to keep it calm. He writes that, through his life, his sexuality was like a “wire on a wire”, hanging on his head. “Yes, because I was scared,” he said. “Listen, it’s in the 60s and the 70s. Well, I think perhaps I was getting realistic, first of all, my sexuality was confused. And I thought, Well, if I reveal it, what am I really going to reveal?
He said, “I did not want to put risk that many other people had taken the risk, even at that time. I mean, talking about homosexuality, talking about the two-, whatever the sexuality is, was something that expelled me out of hell,” he said.
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Personally, they lived for fear of detection of diller, but publicly were one of the best leaders of the game. As a junior executive in ABC, he pioneered the high-supporting film of the week, and later with a landmark event such as “Roots”, even made successful TV minisaries.
When “Roots” first aired in 1977, more than half of the US population joined. “You were really watching 30 to 40 to 50,000,000 people at a time,” because there was definitely no recorder, “he said. “This appointment was to see and everyone in America came to appoint.”
And then, the person who conquered TV went to films, at the age of 32, head of paramount.
Did he feel that he was related? “Oh God, no,” he said. “When I became the chairman of Paramount – and in all things, this child was from television – it was,” How did this happen in God’s name? It is an accident of history that will be corrected quickly. “
But the TV child knew how to tell a good story, and a string of green bite films since becoming classics like the 1977 “Saturday Night Fever”.
It was during the early days in Paramount that Diller met fashion designer Dyne Vauan Fursenberg. Interestingly, he did not click first. “Yes, the first time I met him, I never wanted to see him again, because whatever he was rejecting me and,” he said. “But then, the second time when we met, what a few months later, within minutes, it was a pure desire.”
“It was a steam -filled romance,” I said.
“Yes. Oh, yes, it was those things.”
“And you clarify it – I mean, I will simply keep it there – your relationship with Diane is not just plateonic.”
“No. It did not start, no, no, no, no.”
“You are a lover.”
“Yes.”
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“It makes me think one of the points you are trying to make in the book is that it is not a mutual-oriented thing-that you can fall in love with Diane and, at the same time, be attracted to men?”
“Yes,” Diller said. “I do not see anything exclusively with him, no. I mean, other people may be, but I can’t. If I know that the person cares about me, I am not jealous of anything else. So, it is just luck, I think.”
Diller says that he is very outstanding for his professional success as well as fate. And they have a lot more: in the 80s, as the chairman of Fox, he created a fourth TV network, Homer Simpson and All.
Asked if he gets bored with success, the deleler replied, “Yes, of course. I mean, once it is there, what are you going to do with it?”
In the 90s, Diller again switched gear, invested in home shopping, and eventually formed a group of internet businesses, which became domestic names such as Expedia and Match.com.
And in the middle, he and Fursenberg helped to build a high line, donating his time and ten million dollars. “It does not treat cancer,” he said. “It changes the dynamics of the world, eradicate or whatever, but it brings happiness to the people.”
He says that he has a similar goal with this book: to share a good story. And this means telling the truth – finally let a mystery go that he is catching for a lifetime.
I asked, “You touch these feelings, maybe I was wrong?,
“I don’t know that I was wrong about not talking about my personal life; I think I was a coward,” said Diller. “And I don’t like it. But this is the truth. I was. I did not have – and I wish I did not have the courage to announce at that time.”
“Does it weigh on you?”
“I would not call it weight on me,” he said, “but it’s something that, of course, I have thought …” he said. “But it didn’t get out very badly.”
The same can also be said about his personal life: Diller and Vauan Fursenberg were married in 2001, and they are as strong as usual.
He calls his relationship with the basis of his life. “Well, I don’t know better details from the bedock,” said Diller. “The best time for us is when it is just us. And after about 50 years, how lucky do you get?”
Read a fraction: “Who knew” by Barry Deller
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