"This is the brilliant account of the life and death of PolyGram Films as seen through the eyes of its president, Michael Kuhn. Detailed are the beginnings of the company in the 1980s and its subsequent meteoric growth throughout the 1990s. A succession of triumphs produced by an innovative stable of subsidiaries, including Working Title, Propaganda, and Interscope, seemed likely to establish PolyGram in Hollywood for decades to come. Enjoying critical acclaim and popular success with such films as <I>Four Weddings and Funeral</I>, <I>Fargo</I>, <I>Wild at Heart</I>, and <I>Notting Hill</I>, PolyGram Films garnered 10 Oscars from 1991 to 1998, before its potential was destroyed by the machinations of its own parent company, Philips. This is not only the story of deals won and lost in the ruthless world populated by titans, sharks, and egomaniacs, but also of a real business adventure that changed the structure of the global film industry."