Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...horse race for the top job at Viacom, a la GE after Jack Welch retired in 2001. Critical to Redstone, Freston and Moonves are dyed-in-the-wool content guys. Freston, a free-spirited music lover who has served on the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, engineered the phenomenal success of MTV. Moonves, a hard-charging executive, has turned CBS Television into the top-rated network. Left out was Jonathan Dolgen, 59, chairman of Viacom Entertainment Group, who resigned a day after Karmazin. "My emphasis is on creativity," Redstone tells TIME. "You have to invest...
...Carnegie Hall nearly 20 years ago: they have beautiful scores and the sort of silly-funny libretti dear to the Encores! audience. Bring 'em back alive! And for a more modern piece, I recommend the 1961 "Kean," with a sumptuous score by Robert Wright and Chet Forrest of "Kismet"fame and a luminous title role (originally played by Alfred Drake) that would be perfect for Encores!' signature male star, Brian Stokes Mitchell...
...quick perusal of "In the News" section on thefacebook.com confirms that, if not everyone, then many at Harvard get Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame. But while these items usually link to games won, stunts pulled or pedestrian quotes as random student X, a different subset of newsmakers gain their notoriety through, well, more notorious means...
...You’ll find I may not be quite the Jon Belushi character you imagine,” claims Zachary A. Corker ’04, the notorious party impresario of Mather Lather fame...
...using his Washington connections and Washington-born fame to solidify the University’s role—and his own image—at the vanguard of higher education...