Word: mogul
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...Murdoch's declaration a classic, bold Rupertian move or the action of a desperate man? The mogul is 79 years old. His love affair with newspapers has lasted longer than his three marriages. But now it's an open question as to who will cease to exist first: Rupert or the newspaper as we know it. (Murdoch's mother Dame Elisabeth is 100.) He has made it clear that he wants one of his children - probably James - to run the show after he exits. This partly explains why he and his loyal and capable No. 2, Peter Chernin, recently parted...
...night Doc's ex-girlfriend Shasta shows up on his doorstep asking for help. It appears that her new squeeze, the powerful real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann, may be the target of a kidnapping scheme. When Mickey disappears - and Shasta too - the lovelorn Doc, with quantities of superior weed, plunges into a many-layered plot. It involves, among other things, the LAPD, organized crime, disorganized crime, a lecherous dentist and the Golden Fang, which is sometimes a mysterious schooner, sometimes a no-nonsense drug cartel. Pynchonesque multitudes crowd into the picture. Tight-lipped federales, stoner lawyers, ex-con neo-Nazis...
...neither a star nor a mogul nor a person caught up, Henry Louis Gates-style, in a controversial news event, Ben Silverman drew a lot of media attention. His job was to find or help create hit shows - the kind of network position that usually brings power and wealth, but not notoriety. But Silverman's outsize personality - big parties, big talk, big ideas - and his youth made him a magnet for gossip, anecdotes and media speculation. Problem was, two years into his term, NBC had exactly zero hit shows. And people noticed...
...Just across the road from the Smokehouse is the plusher Cameron Highlands Resort, www.cameronhighlandsresort.com. Bedecked in Jim Thompson textiles (in memoriam the former CIA agent turned silk mogul, who disappeared while on a walk in the Camerons in 1967), the 56 rooms and suites offer lush views of the Cameron Highlands Golf Course and the hills beyond. The Highland Bar is the venue for sundowners and single malts, and the Jim Thompson Tea Room the place for high tea. If you don't feel like ingesting it, head for the Spa Village and have it applied externally - in the form...
Since April, the coverage of the 72-year-old billionaire mogul turned politico has read like something between an airport romance novel and soft porn. On April 26, Berlusconi showed up at the 18th birthday party of leggy Neapolitan blond Noemi Letizia with the gift of a diamond necklace. Within two days, Berlusconi's wife of 20 years, Veronica Lario, announced she wanted a divorce, claiming that her husband "frequents underage females." (See Berlusconi's Worst Gaffes...