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Ergen isn't hauling dishes anymore, but he is still the scrappiest guy in satellite TV. Last week he made a $32 billion all-stock bid for DirecTV, the largest satellite company in the U.S. The offer puts Ergen in an uphill battle against Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who was on the brink of clinching his own deal for DirecTV. If Ergen outmaneuvers Murdoch in the battle that's likely to unfold in the next few weeks, he will control most of the nation's satellite sets. If he loses, the move--like a well-executed bluff...
DirecTV--owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics Corp.--would be the missing piece of the planetary puzzle for Murdoch's News Corp. Its Sky Global Networks has 85 million subscribers spread across Europe, Asia and Latin America. DirecTV would deliver the U.S. in a bold way. The addition of DirecTV's 10 million households would make Murdoch No. 1 in satellite TV in the U.S., and No. 3 in pay TV, behind only AT&T's cable operations, with more than 14 million cable subscribers, and AOL Time Warner, with almost 13 million. (AOL Time Warner is the parent...
...Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark...
...announced it had plucked Thompson from a post in Albuquerque, N.M., nude stills from her early work in A Gun, a Car, a Blonde and Manhattan Gigolo turned up on the Internet, as well as some art-ish nudes she did for a magazine called Black and White. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post (he also, coincidentally, owns CNN rival Fox News) delicately blared HEADLINE NUDES from its front page, while Thompson explained, "I did this as a piece of art, and I make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year...
...Wessex, a.k.a. wife of Prince Edward). One evening she met a handsome Arab, whom the Countess charmed so he would live happily ever after as her client. Alas for her! Her future intended (client) was actually white-robed undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, hired by the ruthless press baron Rupert Murdoch to tape their talk. The villain offered Sophie a choice: have a deeply personal chat with the News of the World, and the tapes would be hers. Or else. And so it was done. But alack! A Murdoch rival, the Mail on Sunday, printed "excerpts" overheard by bitter Wessex employees...