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Everybody knows about Jack Nicholson (and now Antonio Villaraigosa), but Bloomberg offers up a sampler of other folks lucky enough - and rich enough - to sit right next to the action.
--Lou Adler, movie producer
--Irving Azoff, Live Nation chairman
--David Geffen, co-founder of DreamWorks SKG
--Patrick Soon-Shiong, chairman of Abraxis BioScience
--Norman Pattiz, founder of Westwood One
--Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation chairman
--Jerry Weintraub, former CEO of United Artists
--Joel Silver, producer
--Terry Semel, former Yahoo CEO
--Henry Nicholas, Broadcom co-founder
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.