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Redstone, 81, was quick to promote to co-president both Freston, 58, and Leslie Moonves, 54, who ran CBS, filling the vacancy left by Karmazin, 60. Redstone said he would finally call it quits within three years, setting up a 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...
...month's NATO summit. But to modern dance legend Pina Bausch, this ancient city beside the Bosphorus remains a place of mystery and movement, gypsies, drinkers and steamy Turkish baths. In Nefes (Breath), a show that runs until the end of June at Paris' Théâtre de la Ville, before moving on to Berlin and Tokyo, the German choreographer uses Istanbul as a respite from recent political events. When Bausch first conceived the show in 2002, she wanted it to be busy, colorful and noisy, reflecting life in a city of more than 12 million inhabitants...
...year-old Murphy and 19-year-old Laura Benanti. (Another gifted starlet coming off of a the train.) At the Saturday night performance I ran into Harvey Weinstein, the Miramax Films co-chairman who has backed such Broadway shows as "The Producers," "Sweet Smell of Success," Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme," and who would win an Oscar for Best Picture when he produced the 2002 movie version of "Chicago" (directed by Kathleen Marshall's brother Rob). Weinstein told me he might be interested in a mainstem transfer for "Wonderful Town." Three years later, it happened...
...gospel and every form of popular music, he came to Atlantic Records in 1953, when the company?s boss, Ahmet Ertegun, bought Charles? Swingtime Records contract for $2,500. Ray brought with him a pioneering blend of gospel melodies, rhythm-and-blues raunch, a suavely swingin? piano groove ? la Nat Cole and the imposing sound of a big band behind him (though typically he worked with only six sidemen). Oh, and an epochal vocal style that would make him the 20th century?s dominant and longest-lived emissary of soul music to pop music...
During the year, two candidates considered for the post—Randy Schekman from the University of California at Berkeley and Gerald F. Joyce, from the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California—would neither confirm nor deny that they were offered the position...