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...boardroom struggle that is as much about legacy concerns as about control, media titans Rupert Murdoch and John Malone are sparring over the prized assets of News Corp., which include the Fox TV group, publisher HarperCollins, filmmaker 20th Century Fox and satellite-TV firm DirecTV. Malone, 63, wants to resuscitate his image as a brilliant dealmaker and operator. Murdoch, 73, who has offices secured by fingerprint ID technology and keeps a tight rein on the company he built, is driven to pass on the business to his children...
...there were papers running pro-Bush news articles. I might add, however, that these were largely owned by one of two sources: Silvio Berlusconi, the right-wing Prime Minister of Italy, media magnate and wealthiest man in the country, who is currently faced with bribing charges; or the infamous Rupert Murdoch, known to British political magazine Private Eye as the “Dirty Digger...
Right on cue, a rather capricious King Charles II (Rupert Everett) abruptly reverses the law and allows only women to play female roles on stage. From there, the film follows the meteoric decline of Crudup’s Kynston from respected actor to glorified drag queen. Meanwhile, Maria realizes that under the harsh glare of the spotlight, she lacks any theatrical talent (if only Danes had reached the same conclusion prior to filming). She must reassure the enraged and borderline-suicidal Kynston who must now content himself with playing the bawdy drinking houses of working-class London where...
...movie’s incessantly pat heteronormativity borders on the offensive: Kynston can’t be a man again until he sleeps with a woman, and there are repeated jokes about how one partner in a same-sex relationship must always play the woman. Even the lovable Rupert Everett, hamming it up in the role of the pompous but strikingly enlightened King Charles II, couldn’t redeem the film though, it should be noted, the second aforementioned sex scene involved him, a girl who looked to be about 12 and a dozen dogs on a royal mattress...
...20th Century Fox; in Beverly Hills, Calif. After completing college in 1947, Davis with his father launched a wildcat drilling operation that became the source of his wealth. In the '80s he branched into real estate and entertainment, buying Fox studios and then selling the company to media magnate Rupert Murdoch, using the proceeds to build the 20th Century Fox Plaza. Forbes this year pegged his fortune at $4.9 billion...