Word: moguls
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...probably the biggest media mogul you've never heard of. Born in Egypt and reared in Israel, Haim Saban is the self-made billionaire who turned an offbeat Japanese kids' TV show into a global franchise: the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He lives on a six-acre estate in Beverly Hills, Calif., and keeps a fairly low profile. So why is he buying a group of major German TV networks and a film library...
Just four months earlier, he had been hustling from one Philadelphia hair salon to the next, selling pound cake to women while they were being coiffed. Now Reuben Harley was reclining on a black leather couch in the midtown Manhattan recording studio of hip-hop mogul Sean (P. Diddy) Combs. The unlikely pair chatted about business, music and, most importantly, jerseys--the classic models that sports legends like Julius Erving, Nolan Ryan and Jackie Robinson used to wear...
...region were too intriguing to be left unexplored. My 400-mile journey from the southwestern Pakistani town of Quetta to Ribat Qila took 13 hours by pickup truck, the last part of it on a dirt track, slaloming between huge boulders. Off in the distance was an ancient Mogul army outpost, half-submerged by drifts of sand...
...meeting over scrambled eggs after an all-night album-release party when hip-hop mogul Sean (P. Diddy) Combs got a look at a few $300 replicas of old sports jerseys--like a 1970s mustard yellow and brown number from the San Diego Padres. He liked what he saw. Combs wore 10 of the jerseys, sold by Philadelphia-based sports-nostalgia company Mitchell & Ness, at different times during the American Music Awards last year. Rappers like Bow Wow and Snoop Dogg followed, choosing royal blue 1960s L.A. Lakers duds for videos and concerts. Now Reuben Harley, 29, Mitchell & Ness...
...Beatty, his co-star in Fortune. Nicholson, along with his real gifts, has always had a canny ability to move with the heat. He has done it so well that now he is the heat. He knew he had it knocked after he saw a rough cut of Chinatown. "Mogul," he said to Evans, "we got that hot one. Get those checks ready--we're on our way." -TIME...