Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acquire Paramount Communications for $69.14 a share in cash and stock and thereby create one of the world's media giants.Since Redstone would hold 70% of the voting stock of the combined company, he would have majority control of more movies, books and television shows than any other media mogul--unless Ted Turner, Barry Diller or one of the other rival suitors now circling the Paramount building comes forward and derails the merger...
...burst of activity makes Murdoch a formidable force in the fast-evolving world of media alliances and the race to develop an electronic superhighway into the home. It pits the Australian-born mogul and his partners against such giants as Time Warner, AT&T and cable-firm Viacom International, which are rushing to build interactive systems of their own. At the same time, the star tv and BSkyB deals enable Murdoch to bestride the television world. When asked whether he intends to build a global TV network, Murdoch booms out, "Oh, absolutely...
...years ago. "In this town Jason instantly became somebody who could star in a movie," says Chris Lee, senior vice president at TriStar Pictures and one of several Asian Americans (Teddy Zee at Columbia, Bonni Lee at Geffen, Richard Sakai at Jim Brooks' Gracie Productions) inching their way up Mogul Mountain. "We've entered the system and there's more of us to come, and that's changing the face of Hollywood...
...Angeles, a company town still cringing from the Heidi Ho' headlines about a Hollywood madam and her yet to be revealed list of star and mogul clients, scandal is a commodity to be both feared and savored. In the rest of the country, the Heidi story was rancid catnip for a slow news summer. But the Michael Jackson story goes deeper -- yes, and deeper than the sad public frolics of Woody Allen a year ago. For as pitiable and lunatic as Jackson's soft eccentricities make him appear in the skeptical public eye, he had surely convinced the world...
...cable-TV mogul buys a chunk of Hollywood -- again...