Brian Grazer

BRIAN GRAZER LIKES TO TELL THE STORY ABOUT the time he didn’t meet Vladimir Putin. Not meeting Putin is a story nearly all of us could tell, but Grazer came closer than most, right into the ante-room of the Russian President’s office, in fact.

Grazer—producer and founding partner, along with friend and director Ron Howard, of Imagine Entertainment—had gone to Moscow for one of what he has dubbed his “curiosity conversations,” which are pretty much just what they sound like. You may be one of the great power players in Hollywood, responsible for such cinematic classics as and and such TV hits as and but that doesn’t mean you know everything. So Grazer tries to sit down with accomplished people and simply ask them questions. “I lay out the ground rules,”