Word: diller
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...share of Time Warner Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner that owns, among other things, cable outlets in 36 states. Southwestern Bell spent $650 million in February for just two suburban cable systems in Washington. The Bell Atlantic-TCI deal dwarfed the bidding war between Barry Diller's QVC shopping network and MTV-owner Viacom for Paramount Communications, which had held Hollywood and Wall Street spellbound in recent weeks. It also thickened the plot, since TCI-controlled Liberty Media has been a chief backer of Diller's, whose nearly $10 billion bid for Paramount tops Viacom's by about...
...decade after Pearl Jam's failed "Ticketbastard" crusade against the ticketing giant, the Web is doing what lawsuits couldn't: raising the bar with a healthy dose of competition. While Ticketmaster, part of Barry Diller's Interactive Corp., still dominates the industry--it sold 128 million tickets last year, compared with Tickets.com's 76 million--it is fending off threats from every direction. Some of its biggest customers--concert promoters and professional sports leagues--are finding ways to sell their own tickets. Smaller ticketing outfits are attracting museums and concert halls with software that gives them closer fan connections. Worst...
...this would have happened if a community group, the Friends of the High Line, had not pushed for a more imaginative alternative. Incredibly, they prevailed, or at least have so far. Last year saw the groundbreaking for a park conceived through a collaboration between the artist-architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the landscape designer James Corner of Field Operations, which is also the firm behind the landfill park at Fresh Kills. Their plan calls for stretches of the High Line to be planted in ways meant to recall the self-seeded trees and grasses that sprouted there in the past...
...difficult in the way it was for Joan Rivers or Phyllis Diller. Being a woman in a very male-dominated business absolutely formed the stage personality those two women had. I don't think it did with me. It is kind of a double-edged sword. There were times - the first time I did the show at the Connection - if I had to wait around to be included in a way that wasn't gender-biased onstage, I never would have made it. But it does have a sort of Special Olympics feel...
...crown jewel in the city’s architectural tiara. Many in the art world have high hopes that the new Institute will play a major role in turning Boston into a significant destination in the contemporary art world.The ICA, designed by New York-based architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, is both a strikingly beautiful building and the celebrated avant-garde design team’s first undertaking in the United States. The glass-clad structure thrusts over Boston Harbor, the top floor firmly cantilevered 80 feet beyond the building’s footprint, above a harbor-side promenade. The traditional...