To Our Readers, Mar. 27, 1995

PUTTING TOGETHER A $2 BILLION business from scratch is a sweepingly ambitious, often frenetic and sometimes messy task. The same could be said, on a smaller scale, of the journalistic task of reporting on such a company start-up. To assemble this week's cover story on the new Hollywood studio DreamWorks SKG, Time fielded a gifted crew to keep pace with the vision and entrepreneurial energy of DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen--our own "dream team."

From the start, says West Coast bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, "the key was exclusive, firsthand access." Jeffrey Ressner, TIME's entertainment correspondent, was able to...