Word: biondi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Diller essentially threw in his hand and let Redstone rake in the pot. For Redstone, the triumph in what he angrily came to call "the cruel, abusive and sometimes ridiculous battle for Paramount" could hardly have been sweeter. With the battle about to end last Monday, Redstone, Biondi and two Viacom colleagues repaired to the posh "21" Club in midtown Manhattan to dine and await the result of the tally of tendered shares, which was due by midnight. The first call from Viacom's proxy solicitor came at 8:30, with word that Viacom already had the 50.1% of Paramount...
...retailer of home videos and Hollywood's largest single customer but also the majority owner of Spelling Entertainment, Republic Pictures and the Florida Marlins baseball team, mystified analysts by agreeing to be the merged company's vice chairman. This left Redstone squarely in control and Redstone's man Frank Biondi as the chief executive officer...
Senior Laura Alonzo never got to kiss Matt Biondi. Biondi, the 1988 Olympic swimming hero, was presenting the trophy for high point awards in Alonzo's Bay Area summer recreational swimming league. Alonzo had worked hard and won her 13-year-old age group--and the right to accept a trophy from Biondi...
...Biondi seen some of Alonzo's races this year, he might have granted her wish...
Existing cable channels will subdivide or create spin-offs: a battery of sports channels from ESPN, say, or targeted versions of MTV. "My guess is we'll probably do three to five feeds of MTV, much like radio," says Frank Biondi Jr., president of Viacom, which owns the music-video channel and several other cable networks. "We'll do hard rock, rhythm and blues, urban contemporary -- right down the line...