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...some personality-led brands have had their perils. Rosie O'Donnell and Martha have taught us that. "By definition, they offer more risk," Murdoch says, speaking of Hay, "but with someone like Donna, they offer opportunity." What might hold Hay back is a natural reticence. She refuses, for example, to appear on the cover of her magazine. "But I'm not shy," she insists. "I'm shy compared to Jamie Oliver...
...powerful international support. It was Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's eldest son and the deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., who grasped her potential. Besides the books, published worldwide by HarperCollins, and the magazine, published by News Magazines in Australia (both divisions of News Corp.), Hay has a pan-Australian newspaper column, which reaches roughly one-third of the nation's population. All of this while helping Wilson on their farm near Sydney...
...Belvoir Street Theatre, another late-'90s battle is being restaged. 'An ant is small," says one of the footy fans of Alana Valentine's Run Rabbit Run, 'but if you get enough ants in a bed, they'll drive a man crazy." In this case, the man was Rupert Murdoch, and the ants were members of the South Sydney Rugby League Club, the Rabbitohs, which Murdoch sought to sacrifice in his pared-down Super League and quest for pay-TV supremacy...
...James Murdoch must have felt as if he'd stumbled onto the set of Fox TV's Celebrity Boxing. Just days after being named chief executive of BSkyB by his father, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, James took a solid beating from the broadcaster's shareholders. Accusing the Murdochs of nepotism, they tried to block the 30-year-old Harvard dropout from the board. One lambasted the family for "arrogance and indifference" that "is completely appalling...
...Nokia plans to track down the hackers - so look for more explosions to come. Family Values Vs. Share Value Call it a family feud: At the BSkyB shareholders' meeting last Friday, Daniel Summerfield of U.S. pension fund CalPERS and British fund USS demanded that 72-year-old chairman Rupert Murdoch resign because of his recent installation of his 30-year-old son James as chief executive. Critics say BSkyB is a family affair too close to the elder's News Corporation. Murdoch Sr. allowed that there was "a suspicion of possible nepotism" but said he's not leaving. "You have...