Look out, Disney-Thomas Haffa has built EM.TV into a European media power. Now he's eyeing Hollywood.'Rainer. Raaaaaainer!" Thomas Haffa shouts the name up the ladder to the stern deck of the "Ava," a 40-meter yacht he has rented for a huge mid-April TV programming conference in Cannes. It's a sun-drenched morning, and Haffa is furiously dealmaking from a bench at the yacht's stern. Having connected a BBC Television executive with Rainer Tschierschwitz, one of his chief lieutenants, Haffa suddenly spies Jeffrey Schlesinger, president of Warner Bros.
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