Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday--Highbrow journalism mogul Rupert Murdoch announces that he has bought the Harvard Independent for $1500. Murdoch adds in an interview on Channel 5 that he also considered purchasing the Lampoon, but decided it wouldn't be profitable. "That's not funny!" barks Lampy president Daniel J. Greaney...
...presidential primary campaigns, high expectations can often be dangerous. The expectations have seldom been higher than last September, when the networks prepared to unveil four new weekly anthology series. The shows boasted big-name directors and writers (headed by Hollywood's ubiquitous mogul Steven Spielberg), harked back to fondly remembered series from TV's past, and promised liberation from the straitjacket of recurring characters and continuing story lines. If the anthology shows worked, it seemed, a programming revolution might be in the offing...
...equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys her success and so clearly understands how it all came about...
Only a few hours earlier, Rupert Murdoch had confided to a visitor that he has no particular fondness for Hollywood's social circuit. But a show- business mogul must put on a good show. So there he stood last month sipping Perrier at a Beverly Hills reception, flashing a smile and chatting comfortably with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dino De Laurentiis. Stars and studio bosses had all turned out. The party, in honor of Murdoch and his wife Anna, was the perfect opportunity for everyone to size up the Australian-born newspaper tycoon who has become America...
...spite of his reputation for hovering over his managers' shoulders, Murdoch so far has left Diller at peace. Murdoch spends only a few days each month at the studio, then returns home to his Fifth Avenue triplex in New York City. The mogul says that he and his wife have no plans to buy a house or apartment in Los Angeles. They appear content to stay in the small, secluded Bel-Air Hotel...