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...Bill Gates and John Malone. Diller was now preaching the new religion of interactivity--though, to give credit where credit is due, so was virtually every other sentient being in telecommunications in 1992. Owning a traditional broadcast network, Diller told the New Yorker with a cavalier, would-be mogul's flair, "would be fun. But even as I say it, I bore myself...
...anything can enlighten Hollywood, it is the box office. Hong Kong films attract audiences worldwide, and Broken Arrow earned a burly $15.6 million its first weekend. Even a myopic mogul can see that the brisk, visceral Hong Kong style of acting and action could be the shot of adrenaline Hollywood needs to shake off its creative funk...
MAGIC JOHNSON, multiplex mogul, investor and sometime coach, is coming back to basketball. Maybe. Rumors of Johnson's return have been rebounding since he retired in 1991. But this time the omens are promising. Johnson has talked to the nba and practiced with the Lakers over the past two weeks. As long as Magic transfers his 5% share of the team to someone else, the nba would have no objections. Nor, oddly enough, would Lakers coach Del Harris. The call rests with Johnson, who is not about to spill any beans: "Let's just say I haven't decided...
VOTERS LOVE IT AT FIRST SIGHT. Politicians want to embrace it. there may be danger in the details, but the flat tax is becoming the hottest new issue in the G.O.P. presidential race. Riding mostly on his flat-tax proposal, magazine mogul Steve Forbes has become the fastest-rising candidate in the contest. And he's about to get some prominent company. Next week a tax-reform commission headed by former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp will make its own proposal to flatten the federal income tax. Bob Dole, the Republican front runner and co-sponsor of the commission, is expected...
...SHORTY A movie-mad mobster (dreamy, incisive John Travolta) reinvents himself as a movie mogul. He's a real shark chewing up Hollywood's rubbery simulacrums while helping some bottom feeders rise to the top in Barry Sonnenfeld's jaunty, well-acted comedy of bad manners...