Word: mogul
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Like a brash rookie slugger who can't handle big-league curves, the National sports daily struck out last week. The flashy tabloid, owned by Mexican media mogul Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, never really connected with readers and advertisers, and it lost $100 million in just 17 months of publication. Its problems were compounded by "an economic climate that was getting worse and worse," said editor and publisher Frank Deford. Declaring WE HAD A BALL on its final front page, the first U.S. daily devoted entirely to sports printed its final edition last Thursday...
Sure, everybody talks about how bummed out all the fictional versions of the future seem to be, but nobody does anything about it except Ted Turner. In November 1989, with the elan of someone ordering up cheerier wallpaper, the cable mogul created the Turner Tomorrow Awards for the purpose of inspiring authors the world over to "write about creative and positive solutions to ! global problems within an original work of fiction." The inducement to think happy thoughts: a top prize...
About all that can be said for Charley is that his reluctance to marry a spoiled-rotten fiance (Elisabeth Shue) and take on a classically choleric movie mogul (Robert Loggia) in the bargain is understandable. About all that can be said about Vicki is that she is pretty and sings sexily...
...Erotic obsession is a risky subject for fiction. No matter how besotted the victims of this malady may be, their behavior is likely to strike mere witnesses, i.e., readers, as distasteful, hilarious or both. This first novel, whose author is a London theatrical producer and the wife of advertising mogul Maurice Saatchi, sidesteps such unintended responses, thanks to old-fashioned British reserve...
Some London business analysts question whether his interest in the Daily News will outlast the first heady gust of publicity. Others think he is determined to succeed where his archrival, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, failed. Murdoch, who bested Maxwell in London to buy the Sun, News of the World and the august Times, burst onto the New York scene by acquiring the tabloid Post in 1976. During the next 12 years, Murdoch lost $150 million before being legally compelled to sell because he also owned a local TV station...