Paramount + Dreamworks, blow-by-blow

The never-dispensible Edward Jay Epstein gives the most interesting account of Paramount’s acquisition of Dreamworks in the media to date in Slate this week, echoing our contention (okay, echoing my co-blogger Mssr. Brodesser’s contention) that Paramount bought Dreamworks to compensate for its own deficiencies. I’m not even going to excerpt anything from Epstein’s piece. Just read the whole damn thing. It’s practically a holiday week. What else were you going to do right now?