Investment banker Herbert A. Allen Jr.'s annual mogulfest in July drew the usual mix of Hollywood and Wall Street media barons, packed wallet to wallet amid Sun Valley, Idaho's verdant mountain vistas. Addressing the opening session was Seagram boss Edgar Bronfman Jr., the ink barely dry on the $5.7 billion check that he wrote for MCA in June. Returning, too, was billionaire Sumner Redstone of Viacom, who gobbled up Paramount and Blockbuster within months of Allen's 1994 power powwow. The $13 billion man, Microsoft's Bill Gates, showed up. With so many titans in attendance, a leisurely walk could, and did, lead to something monumental. On a stroll along Wildflower Street, Disney Co.'s Michael Eisner bumped into Tom Murphy, the chief of Capital Cities/ABC, who was on his way to play golf with Warren Buffett, Cap Cities' biggest shareholder. "Hey, Tom, do you think it's time for our companies to get together?" Eisner asked. Murphy answered: "Sounds good. Let's go talk to Buffett."
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机译：投资银行家赫伯特·艾伦·艾伦（Herbert A. Allen Jr.）在7月份的年度最激烈的竞争中，吸引了好莱坞和华尔街媒体界的大佬们，将钱夹在钱包之间，将爱达荷州青翠的山景尽收眼底。 Seagram老板埃德加·布朗夫曼（Edgar Bronfman Jr.）在开幕式上致辞，他在6月份为MCA开出的57亿美元支票上的墨水几乎没有干。维亚康姆（Viacom）的亿万富翁萨姆纳·雷德斯通（Sumner Redstone）也回来了，他在1994年艾伦（Allen）掌权后的几个月内吞噬了派拉蒙（Paramount）和百事达（Blockbuster）。身价130亿美元的微软公司的比尔·盖茨出现了。参加众多泰坦活动的人，悠闲地散步可以而且确实导致了巨大的后果。沿着野花街漫步时，迪士尼公司的迈克尔·埃斯纳（Michael Eisner）撞上了首都城市/ ABC总裁汤姆·墨菲（Tom Murphy），他正与Cap Cities的最大股东沃伦·巴菲特（Warren Buffett）打高尔夫球。 “嘿，汤姆，您认为我们的公司该聚在一起了吗？”艾斯纳问。墨菲回答：“听起来不错。让我们去与巴菲特谈谈。”
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