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...Turner and Rupert Murdoch are no longer the world's most eccentric media moguls. MICHAEL JACKSON has announced a deal to create Kingdom Entertainment, "one of the best global entertainment multinational organizations in the world," with PRINCE AL-WALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-SAUD, nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The Prince, who seems to favor working with troubled operations (he already owns part of Euro Disney and London's Canary Wharf), says he wants to provide the world with family-oriented entertainment, from theme parks to concert tours, including Jackson's. For now at least, attracting publicity...
...peaked well before 9 in the morning. But he was probably thinking of those pigeons. The English are known for having almost unlimited sympathy for animals that are unromantic or even animals that Americans might describe as having been hit upside the head with an ugly stick. The United Kingdom is a country in which the monarch harbors corgis...
...Kingdom of God is color-blind," Larson said. "It doesn't matter what country you're from, how much you make, how much education you have...
...managerial and entrepreneurial arts may turn these into far more valuable assets. Wall Street apparently thinks so; it bid up Silver King's stock from $25 to $39 the day Diller's purchase was announced (the stock closed last week at $301/2). Still and all, this is not the kingdom people expected Diller would survey when he walked out on his job as chairman of Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox in 1992 and told the world he yearned to own a network of his own. His assumed ambition was to be a Murdoch, or even a Laurence Tisch...
...more, sometimes much more. For boosting the Magic Kingdom's stock price 28% and orchestrating a $19 billion merger (the second largest in U.S. history) with Capital Cities/ABC, Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner took home a $14.8 million compensation package, outpacing his prior year's pay nearly 40%. Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen...