[Fedora]

Over the years, money has poured in from Japan, Germany and Britain, as well as from U.S. billionaires like Philip F. Anschutz and Jeff Skoll, the co-founder of eBay Inc.

Interesting. . .

BTW on old-fashioned Hollywood scandals and connections to the Clintons, I think that Pellicano thing might track back to some of this stuff from earlier eras--need to pull together my thoughts on that sometime, but that's been my impression.

[Liz]

The whole area of H'wood financing is interesting.

Of course you know that AP Giannini, the founder of the huge Bank of America (first known as the Bank of Italy) was Hollywood's major financier, way back when.