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...rectum-eating challenge on Fear Factor). They're called upfronts because they're designed to entice advertisers to pay billions up front for next season's ads, and the deals are lubricated by cocktails and carpaccio at posh afterparties. It's essentially a TV stock market, in which the moneymen hope to invest in hits-to-be on their...
...Justin Guarini, who appeared live on stage, for "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Nice tunes, guys, but - live on satellite? The point of reality TV, Fox, is that you *own* the contestants' asses. Tired, schmired - they can damn well fly out and dance *in person* for the moneymen...
...press," says a senior executive at one of the banks Spitzer has gone after. But if this is all a political ploy, a platform from which to run someday for, say, Governor of New York, it's certainly not in most politicians' playbooks to take on the moneymen who rank among the most powerful people in the U.S.--and whom he might need one day to help finance a campaign. Spitzer, a child of privilege who attended Horace Mann School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, N.Y., Princeton and then Harvard Law, has studied or socialized with...
...MONEYMEN...
...like. Sometimes investors' names surface; sometimes they don't. Tribal leaders don't have to disclose executives' pay or management arrangements, report their profits, issue audited financial statements or divulge self-dealing contracts to the public or their tribe's members. Not all these deals work out for the moneymen, but the ones that do yield spectacular returns. A few of the outside investors have distinctive--some would say controversial--pasts. Here are profiles of three...