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Hollywood was buzzing last week with reports of MGM/UA being in play and a handful of rival studios looking at its assets, which include the valuable James Bond franchise. The day before the beleaguered studio issued an SEC filing stating it was considering mergers or other ?business combinations?? to bail...
We weren't alone. Cendant, the result of last year's merger of HFS, a franchise company whose brands included Howard Johnson and Avis, and CUC, a kind of discount-shopping club, dazzled many a portfolio manager. After downplaying its accounting "irregularities" last April, the company last week revealed that...
DIED. RICHARD MCDONALD, 89, vending visionary who, with his brother Maurice, started a hamburger chain that became international fast-food behemoth McDonald's Corp; in Manchester, N.H. In 1948 the brothers created the first self-service drive-through, offering speedy service and low prices. As the franchise expanded, Maurice handled...
The 32-year-old comic-actor is currently co-starring in Lethal Weapon 4, the latest installment of the cop-action franchise. He nearly steals the show as the voice of a guinea pig in Eddie Murphy's hit comedy Dr. Dolittle. Rock is co-starring in a comedy-fantasy...
Impressive as all that is, some critics doubt that the transformation alone will have much impact on Boeing's bottom line. Wolfgang Demisch, a managing director of the investment firm BT Alex. Brown, calls Boeing "hugely overstaffed" and ridicules its price war with Airbus. "The commercial-aircraft industry should be...