Word: mogul
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...Mogul and His Motives Re "10 Questions for Harvey Weinstein," your interview with the co-chairman of Miramax [Feb. 9]: In defending his interference in editing the movies that Miramax releases, Weinstein said, "It's not that I ever want to take the integrity out of movies; it's that I want to put the integrity into them." Still, his measure of a film's success seems based entirely upon box-office returns, and he views the inbred Academy Award nominations as "almost an affirmation." Such narrow-minded arrogance leaves one with the impression that what really pleases Weinstein...
...DIED. CLEMENTINA ANGELA LEITAO HO, 80, first wife of Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho; in Hong Kong. Leitao, a Portuguese national and daughter of a prominent Macanese businessman, was credited with helping Ho secure an exclusive casino franchise in 1962 from Macau's Portuguese colonial government. The casino monopoly was the foundation for Ho's estimated $1.4 billion fortune...
...want to get your media files closer to the home entertainment center, the new Molino Media Mogul could be a good solution. It's a set-top box with a 300-GB hard drive that connects to a TV instead of a PC. Using the onscreen interface and a remote control, you can create song playlists and photo slide shows. Hook the unit up to your home network, and you can access Media Mogul files on your PC too. The Media Mogul, available this summer for $995, has a DVD player, memory-card slots for all types of flash memory...
...million people watched the post--Super Bowl debut of Survivor: All-Stars, with the return of player Richard Hatch, who spent much of the episode nude (albeit pixelated). CSI, TV's most popular drama, may be the goriest show in broadcast. So what's a ratings-greedy mogul...
More than any other modern movie mogul, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein has changed the film industry, taking small, independent films out of the art-house ghetto and into the mainstream. He has also been skewered in a new book for his fearsome temper and ego. He talked with Time's Jeffrey Ressner about that reputation, and a Miramax film that suffered an unexpected snub...