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...would take 14 of 18 board votes; eight members come from cbs and are regarded as loyal to Karmazin. He also has won fans on Wall Street by boosting earnings at CBS and earlier at Infinity Broadcasting. "If Mel leaves, the shares will take a hit," says stock analyst Peter Mirsky of SG Cowen. So Redstone, with $10 billion tied up in Viacom stock, might not want to shake this tree too hard...
...latest ruckus involves the makeup of the commission itself. The dispute centers around Peter Kirsanow, an intense Cleveland labor lawyer with a smooth-shaven head and Salvador Dali moustache. In December George Bush appointed Kirsanow, the former head of the conservative Center for New Black Leadership, to fill the seat of Victoria Wilson, a liberal former book publisher who is best known for editing the vampire novels of Anne Rice. The move threatened liberal Mary Frances Berry's control of the commission: with Wilson seated, there are five liberals and three conservatives; Kirsanow would even the votes at four each...
Mailroom favors run in the other direction as well, adds Peter Romeo—a Cantabrigian clad in a purple shirt and black jeans who also works as a crossing-guard—as he sorts newly-received packages...
...case with their films, Ring’s Peter Jackson and Mind’s Ron Howard are sure things. Baz Luhrmann’s boldly excessive vision for Moulin Rouge assures him of a nomination as well. Despite Robert Altman’s snub from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), I’m confident that his multiple honors for Gosford Park (from the Globes, the AFI, and the New York critics, among others) are a sufficient bellwether for an Oscar nod. Ridley Scott’s DGA and AFI nominations for his command of Black Hawk Down?...
...father, Peter Lobo Gomes, was born in the Cape Verde Islands in 1908. The elder Gomes immigrated to the United States in the 1920s and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts,” it reads...