Word: moguls
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...Movies (Lionhead, PC, 2004) Here's your chance to become a Hollywood mogul. Starting in the golden age of silent pictures, you get to build your very own studio and star system. Construct every set, outfit your actors, decide on how much romance or action should be in each scene, then sit back and watch the trailer for the movie you just created. (For the full effect, add your own voice-over.) If the result pleases the critics, you've got a hit - and the money rolling into your coffers will help expand the studio...
...studios gear up? The government thinks it has the winning formula. Its next big production is Luoi Troi (Heaven's Net), which chronicles the lavish spending of corrupt officials and criminals. Hoang, who as a state employee, makes less than $100 a month, is already thinking like a Hollywood mogul-he's penning a sequel, Bar Girls 2. Speculation about the plot is already rife, since the original's main characters are all either dead or dying of AIDS. "People will just have to buy a ticket and see," he says. No doubt, they'll line...
Rosovsky, Epstein’s oldest friend in the bunch, met the mogul through similarly serendipitous circumstances. Twelve years ago, “we were introduced by a mutual friend, Mr. Leslie Wexner,” Rosovsky writes in an e-mail...
...Making of a Mogul...
...year, Saban, 58, hopped to Germany in January when Kirch's creditors appeared to be near a deal with a German bidder. With a team of advisers, Saban set out to convince creditors, regulators and politicians that he was the best buyer. He knew that another rich American, media mogul John Malone, had tried in 2001 to buy a group of TV networks from Deutsche Telekom, Germany's major cable operator, but had been blocked by regulators in part because he was perceived as arrogant and unbending. Saban played the charmer. To regulators concerned about foreign control of media assets...