Word: fox
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Either way, Davis is likely to score big, which is his habit. He used his oil profits in 1981 to buy 20th Century Fox, then sold it to Rupert Murdoch four years later for an estimated profit of $325 million. Davis picked up another $50 million by buying the Beverly Hills Hotel from the family of insider trader Ivan Boesky in 1986, then turning around and selling it to the Sultan of Brunei. Even Davis' "dry hole" takeover attempts often pay off. While Los Angeles investor Alfred Checchi won Northwest with a $4 billion bid, for example, Davis pocketed...
Based on a real-life incident, Brian De Palma's Casualties of War, starring Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox, performs a gritty diagnostic test on the national conscience...
...this year the hucksterism has gone far beyond the usual "ABC's the One" and "Come Home to NBC" sloganeering on- screen. Ads for network shows will turn up everywhere from billboards to women's hosiery departments. Besides CBS and NBC linkups with major retailers, a third network, Fox, has teamed with Coca-Cola to promote an Isle of Dreams Treasure Hunt. Only ABC is sitting on the sidelines...
...year-old woman was arrested earlier this year after allegedly sending more than 5,000 threatening letters to actor Michael J. Fox. The letters said that Fox and his new wife, actress Tracy Pollan, would die if he did not divorce her. They were signed "Your...
...COPS (Fox, July 15, 8 p.m. EDT). Glasnost reached another milestone last spring, when the producers of this documentary-style series about real cops were allowed to follow a group of Soviet policemen. Two weeks of shooting resulted in this special one-hour episode...