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...Vegas-born designer, 40, got his start designing swimsuits for Anne Cole and had his own line of sports clothes for several years. He boasts that he once sold 5,000 five-piece matching outfits with their own carry bag in five minutes on QVC. "They were $79.95," says Duke. "You couldn't even walk into a store and get two pieces for that." With the same optimistic exuberance, Duke picked up a phone and sold himself for the job at Halston after reading in the papers that the label was being resurrected...
...Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia created E to evoke the perfume of her grandmother Grand Duchess Helen of Russia. This "scent once known only to nobility" is now available to commoners--on the QVC home-shopping network...
...reality, there's not much left of the Comcast ranch to bet. Roberts and his father Ralph, 77, who own 7% of Comcast stock, have spent billions building up a collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...
...company's potential to match buyers and sellers is what caught Diller's eye. Diller and Tomlin first worked together at QVC; Diller was the chairman, Tomlin a high-tech executive who had phoned looking for a job after reading how much Diller loved his Powerbook. Both left QVC in the fall of 1994; a few months later, Diller recalls, Tomlin called him again: "'I've found these two guys in a garage...
...which leads to what may be the most intriguing question of all: How does Consumer's Edge fit into Diller's long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network...