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...perhaps by forming an investment group that buys the company. CBS insiders seemed open to such a possibility. "I think we gotta let the dust settle for a little while," says the source close to Tisch. But whether or not Diller ultimately joins CBS, the network of William Paley, Edward R. Murrow and Murder, She Wrote seems virtually certain to change hands before too many more seasons...
Publishers have barreled down the same cynical, slippery slope. Not so long ago, readers of autobiographies were meant to understand that Sammy Davis or William Paley actually produced his memoir. About a decade ago, the pretense was dropped and ghostwriters' names went onto book jackets; nobody minded. Now comes an extraordinary new stage in this postmodern devolution: works of fiction that the nominal celebrity authors not only didn't write but that publishers and celebrities admit they didn't write...
...Brian and the Beach Boys made luminous music. If not all the music in this set made history at first, it can take its proud place in history now. There are 141 songs on this set -- more than six hours of music. Compilers Mark Linett, David Leaf and Andy Paley have included every one of the group's Top 40 hits, along with 40 previously unreleased tracks and assorted radio spots. The collection offers evidence of Brian's emotional delicacy and creative resiliency, from the unreleased H.E.L.P. Is on the Way, with its self-mocking references to being overweight ("doughy...
...knows who threw out their issues," Paley said. "They believe that the Lampoon [did], but as far as I know nobody with the Lampoon did that...
...feel that any laws had been broken," Paley said. "We were advised [by our lawyers] that it was okay to print the parody as long as it wasn't exactly like the Dartmouth Review...