The industry's elite, anxious about crime and homelessness, think they've found a savior in the billionaire mall magnate who idolizes Walt Disney and promises to rescue a city in crisis.
Bass’ Hollywood backers include Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jen Salke, J.J. Abrams, Alan Horn, Damon Lindelof and Jim Gianopulos — along with stars like Jennifer Garner and Jennifer Aniston and members of the activist axis: Ed Begley, Jr., Donald Glover, Norman Lear. But Caruso is lining up his own team, with Walt Disney Television head Dana Walden and CAA co-chair Bryan Lourd co-hosting a fundraiser later this month.
that, like many, crime and homelessness are his top issues in the mayoral race, and he believes that the developer is best positioned to tackle them. “When he ran the police commission, he hired Bill Bratton, and when he headed the USC board, he cleaned up the nonsense there,” Sures explains. “He has a strong point of view and the ability to effectuate significant change.”
It’s easy to see why Hollywood’s gilded inner circle would feel comfortable with Caruso, the 63-year-old son of the founder of Dollar Rent a Car. Those who subscribe to the increasingly prevalent notion of L.A. as an apocalyptic quagmire of homelessness and rising crime may even see him as a savior. Sarandos’ mother-in-law, the Beverly Hills philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, was murdered during a home-invasion early on the morning of Dec.
Aside from his record in the private sector and his CV in public life, mainly as member or president of various city commissions, Caruso likes to cite Walt Disney as a key influence and says he’s always been taken by the symbolism of Paramount’s gates, rhapsodizing tothat “crossing that threshold allows you to go into a different world.” He made his name and his fortune, after all, building upscale shopping malls defined by their— The Grove and the Americana at Brand aimed at L.A.
Caruso, in short, is in “the content and experience business,” just like the entertainment crowd, as he told me when I
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