Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Viacom Edge on Paramount...
Viacom raised its offer to $10 billion in its friendly attempt to merge with Paramount Communications and gained an advantage over rival QVC by making its tender two days ahead of QVC's $10.1 billion offer. Meanwhile, Paramount announced that it would join Chris-Craft Industries to launch a fifth national television network in January...
With 63 percent of New Jersey's vote counted,Whitman led 51 percent to 48 percent. Florio's$2.8 billion 1990 tax hike was the paramount issuein that contest, viewed as a test of whetherpoliticians could overcome public anger by sellingtaxes as tough but sometimes necessary medicine...
...entrepreneurs large and small have seized on VR, hoping to turn Defense Department-bred technology into show-biz profit. Companies from the Hudson River to Tokyo Bay -- the brand names include Paramount Communications, AT&T, Viacom, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Matsushita, Edison Brothers, Hasbro and Time Warner -- are betting cumulative billions on VR. Christopher Gentile of Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, which is developing a home-VR system in Princeton, New Jersey, predicts virtual game shows by 1996. How about 3-D TV? Shopping by VR? The Home Sex Network? "If someone gets there in the home with the right quality and cost," notes...
Unlike most people with a celebrated clientele, Fischler freely offers his opinions of his customers. Asked about the battle over Paramount, he picks Barry Diller (back booth, Sunday mornings) to prevail. "He's a sharp, bright, aggressive barracuda, but he treats everyone here as equals," says Fischler. Pet peeves include stars accompanied by entourages, such as Sylvester Stallone. "He brought three bodyguards with him and insisted that all the nearby tables be kept empty." Even Schwarzenegger, who has his own restaurant in nearby Ocean Park, isn't spared. "Arnold is a good friend," Fischler says with a sigh...