When Darrell D. Miller looks out at the crowd gathered to honor him at Variety’s Power of Law breakfast on April 9, he can be confident that none of the other entertainment attorneys in attendance have traveled a career path quite like his.
Like Miller, they may have attended a prestigious law school, boast an impressive job title at a venerable firm (he’s founding chair of the Entertainment & Sports Law Department at 108-year-old Fox Rothschild) and have decades-long records of brokering innovative deals for big name talent. But it’s safe to say no one else’s career was set in motion by an epiphany on Girgaon Chowpatty beach.
The year was 1986. Miller was playing the Jester in a production of the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” that was touring cities in India and Sri Lanka. He saw rows of sleeping bodies lined up on the side of the road,...
Like Miller, they may have attended a prestigious law school, boast an impressive job title at a venerable firm (he’s founding chair of the Entertainment & Sports Law Department at 108-year-old Fox Rothschild) and have decades-long records of brokering innovative deals for big name talent. But it’s safe to say no one else’s career was set in motion by an epiphany on Girgaon Chowpatty beach.
The year was 1986. Miller was playing the Jester in a production of the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” that was touring cities in India and Sri Lanka. He saw rows of sleeping bodies lined up on the side of the road,...
- 4/9/2025
- by Todd Longwell
- Variety Film + TV
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