Simon Cowell, famous Stateside for judging American Idol, is pulling the same move Tony Montana used on his boss Frank Lopez in the movie Scarface. In case you haven’t seen Scarface like a 100 times, Tony Montana Kills his boss Frank Lopez so he can take over his business, because Frank wouldn’t let him operate on his own. Simon Cowell is attempting the same move on Idol against fellow British music mogul Simon Fuller.
Here’s a little back story on the two from over in the U.K. Cowell and Fuller are both called Simon and are both 51 years old. Both are also music and entertainment moguls and both are worth hundreds of millions, but Fuller is worth almost twice as much as Cowell. Fuller launched “Pop Idol” in the U.K. In 1998, this was spun-off into “America Idol”. The “Idol” franchise is now considered the most valuable TV format in the world, and is valued at over $8 billion. He also created “So You Think You Can Dance” for the Fox network with Nigel Lythgoe, who produced Pop Idol and is part of Simon Cowell’s production company.
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