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...money. It is a spiritual quest that combines courage and seamanship with hubris and high technology. Yet deep pockets seem to be the common denominator. New Zealand challenger Sir Michael Fay has spent $65 million, Italian industrialist Raul Gardini at least $100 million. On the American-defender side, energy mogul Bill Koch has shelled out at least $60 million. Dennis Conner, the cup's three-time champion, is the poor cousin with a mere $15 million...
THEY CALL RUSSELL SIMMONS THE man with the juice. That's rapspeak for power. During the past decade, this streetwise entertainment mogul has amassed tons of it. You want to talk records? He owns six labels, including the pioneering Def Jam. Live concerts? His management company boasts a roster of such seminal rap performers as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and 3rd Bass. Television? His broadcast and film-production company turns out the popular Home Box Office show Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, a weekly showcase for black stand-up comics. Nobody has done more than Simmons...
...trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole set is a highway), crime (involving, naturally, suitcases of white powder) and moviemaking. Of these, Korder presents the cinema as the most corrupt; it takes an impromptu murder to get the antihero really launched as a mogul...
SHOW BUSINESS Mogul Barry Diller quits while he's ahead...
...though, Diller turned 50. And the miracle mogul had to wonder, Did he have the power he deserved? Spawning Home Alone and The Simpsons loses its savor if the profits you generate go out of Fox's entertainment pocket and into the frayed purse of the newspapers owned by your boss, Rupert Murdoch. Or any company owned by anyone else. At Disney, Diller's friend and former underling Michael Eisner answers only to God and the Bass brothers. Ted Turner, Larry Tisch -- these guys own stuff. Diller just ran things. "For 30 years I've been an employee," he says...