Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president of CompuServe, the largest (2.25 million subscribers) of the field. Upstart America Online grew at such a rapid clip -- an extraordinary 200% in the past 12 months -- that subscribers complained of busy signals and its stock was whipsawed by takeover rumors (the most recent: that cable-TV mogul John Malone wants to buy a big stake). Even Prodigy, the troubled online service that has reportedly swallowed $1 billion of its co-owners' (IBM and Sears) shrinking capital, seems to have turned the corner and is finally showing a profit...
...busted for possession of cocaine, and a vicious murder was tied to the production of his ambitious box-office flop The Cotton Club. After contemplating suicide and escaping from a mental hospital, and while producing last year's insipid sex thriller Sliver, Evans did what any well-traveled mogul looking for a comeback would do: he wrote his memoirs...
...convention, Jeffrey Katzenberg, chieftain of the Disney movie jungle, was joined onstage by an adult lion to tout The Lion King, the most successful film in the company's history. Suddenly the beast wrapped its paw around Katzenberg's thigh. The audience gasped, the trainer scrambled, and the wiry mogul wriggled free, raising his arms in victory...
BUSINESS: A Mogul on the Loose...
...latest casualty in the Simpson case is the TV movie on the life of the former football star. Fox Network owner and media mogul Rupert Murdoch nixed the project because he was concerned that airing the film could make it difficult for O.J. to get a fair trial, according to the Hollywood Reporter, an entertainment industry newspaper...