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...Cuba Gooding, Jr., may have stolen the show in Jerry Maguire, the 1997 movie was built around the football player's slicked-up dealmaker. James Bond movies used to paint the Russians as the enemy; the most recent Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, vilified Elliot Carver, a media mogul intent on boosting ratings...
Nobody wants to deny Spielberg his success. A scrappy kid who dropped out of film school, he's earned his reputation as a media mogul and magician. But it would be a relief to find him working with material that doesn't come with built-in compassion and grandeur, that instead explores the textures and ironies of everyday life. Saving Private Ryan, though emotionally staggering, leaves no room for discourse--which is why one can walk away feeling simultaneously weepy and cheated...
Diller, the free-lance mogul and former chief of the Fox network has long been the topic of one of the TV industry's most popular guessing games: What will Barry do next? Since leaving Fox in 1992, Diller has dabbled in home shopping, proselytized for the digital revolution, failed to buy Paramount and, last February, succeeded in acquiring the majority of Universal's TV operations. Despite persistent rumors that he is in the market for a major network, such as CBS, Diller says he is more interested in fashioning his latest collection of TV properties--including the USA cable...
...cleared the way for more black people to express themselves in other areas of pop culture." All three Fugees have recorded solo albums. Wyclef's went platinum, and Pras' forthcoming CD, Ghetto Supastar, has generated a No. 1 single in Switzerland, Belgium and several other countries. Hip-hop mogul Sean ("Puffy") Combs is preparing to co-star in a movie with Al Pacino and planning to launch a line of urbanwear in 1999. Beastie Boys has a record label, a magazine and a clothing line. Rapper Master P is set to co-star as a computer specialist in Takedown...
...collateral for an $11,000 loan. When he came to pay the money back, Anderson refused to return the coins and gave them to Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone and several other glossy magazines and, need we add, a very wealthy man. Corliss is suing the rock mogul (and Anderson) to get back the coins, which could be worth between $22,000 (in weight) and $10 million (if bought by collectors.) This is the first case of its kind in Idaho, and it rests on whether the coins were lost, were abandoned or are buried treasure, in which case...