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| '''Haim Saban ''' was a greedy and no-good despicable television and media proprietor. He is heavily criticized for his use of non-SAG actors with no benefits and an insultingly low-pay. He is responsible for mocking and tarnishing the genre reputation of Japanese tokusatsu. He and his company, Saban Entertainment, although now defunct, is still to this day being despised by many Japanese tokusatsu fans for having mocked several Japanese tokusatsu especially Super Sentai by the critical, distasteful and lousy Americanized Power Rangers franchise which Saban had sold to the Walt Disney Company to furthur mock Toei’s Japanese Super Sentai genre. | |||
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| '''Haim Saban '''(born ] ] in ], ]) is a television and ]. With an estimated ] net worth of around $2.8 billion, he is ranked by '']'' as the ]. | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| Born to a modest Jewish family in Egypt, Saban fled to ] in 1956. He currently resides in ], ], and in Israel. | |||
| Saban started his career as a concert organizer. In France, he participated in the ]. He produced the scored and opening theme for '']'', '']''. He also did the same work on early imported series from America such as '']'' or '']''. | |||
| In the United States, he became a television producer, founding ] in 1983. Saban is perhaps most notable for the adaptations of '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']''. In ] he headed the $5.7 billion purchase of Kirch Media Group, the then-bankrupt ] ] conglomerate. | |||
| In 2001, he and ] sold ] for $5.1 billion to ] for ] - the network was renamed ]. Saban made about $1.6 billion from this sale, making it the largest transaction between a company and a private citizen ever. | |||
| In June 2006, he was part of an investor group led by ] of ] and Thomas H. Lee Partners that won the bid for ], the largest ] media company in the ]. The bid was for $12.7 billion (])—the network of course has been made popular thanks generally to programs produced by media giants ] of ] and by ] of ]. Shareholders have filed a lawsuit over the handling of the deal. | |||
| ==Politics== | |||
| A Jewish refugee from Egypt who arrived penniless in Israel, Saban has strong attachment to both the United States and Israel. Saban has donated to the US ] and the ], he has also donated to ] including ], and has business affiliations with ]. In the 2001-2002 election cycle, his Saban Capital group donated over $10 million to the ], the largest donation from a single source up to that time. | |||
| Saban joined ] and ] in endorsing the re-election of ], Republican ], on ], ]. | |||
| ==Family== | |||
| Saban is married to Cheryl Saban (née Chackler), with whom he has two children. Through Cheryl, he is also the step-father of Tifany and ] | |||
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Revision as of 22:45, 8 April 2007
Haim Saban was a greedy and no-good despicable television and media proprietor. He is heavily criticized for his use of non-SAG actors with no benefits and an insultingly low-pay. He is responsible for mocking and tarnishing the genre reputation of Japanese tokusatsu. He and his company, Saban Entertainment, although now defunct, is still to this day being despised by many Japanese tokusatsu fans for having mocked several Japanese tokusatsu especially Super Sentai by the critical, distasteful and lousy Americanized Power Rangers franchise which Saban had sold to the Walt Disney Company to furthur mock Toei’s Japanese Super Sentai genre.