Diller's Fastball.
Multichannel News, February, 1999 by PASKOWSKI, MARIANNE
For years, folks have been wondering if Barry Diller, once the wunderkind of Hollywood, had truly lost his fastball, as he seemingly bounced from one aimless pipe dream to another. But apparently, Diller has been doing his homework and honing his Internet savvy, just like others in the entertainment world who don't want to become the next officially declared dinosaur in the headlines.
Indeed, last week, Diller found himself in the center of the fledgling, but most promising, world of e-commerce, marrying a traditional entertainment network with an ultrahot Internet commodity. He grabbed headlines and turned a lot of heads with the announcement of the creation of USA/Lycos -- a mating that truly has the potential to marry USA's Home Shopping...
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