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Ergen isn't hauling dishes anymore, but he is still the scrappiest guy in satellite TV. Last week he made a $32 billion all-stock bid for DirecTV, the largest satellite company in the U.S. The offer puts Ergen in an uphill battle against Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who was on the brink of clinching his own deal for DirecTV. If Ergen outmaneuvers Murdoch in the battle that's likely to unfold in the next few weeks, he will control most of the nation's satellite sets. If he loses, the move--like a well-executed bluff...
...Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right now") and Australia-raised Mel Gibson ("He's filming intensively"). So did James Murdoch, son of tycoon Rupert, on the excuse that he was born in England and holds an American passport?and, presumably, can speak English better than Kylie Minogue, who also declined to comment. We even tried Meryl Streep, who seemed to perfect an Australian accent in A Cry in the Dark. She was "in rehearsal." Thank...
...Angeles 47% Rupert, Idaho 35% St. James, Minn. 24% Chicago 26% Dallas 36% New York City 27% Dalton, Ga. 40% Dodge City, Kans...
...July 3. Lucie's parents, Tim and Jane, both in their mid-40s, had separated five years earlier. Tim lived one-and-a-half hours away on the Isle of Wight in an apartment with his girlfriend. The girls lived with their mother and 17-year-old brother, Rupert. They were renters, not owners, but comfortably middle class. Everyone except Rupert worked. Jane was a therapist for cancer patients. Tim had a small home-building company...
...announced it had plucked Thompson from a post in Albuquerque, N.M., nude stills from her early work in A Gun, a Car, a Blonde and Manhattan Gigolo turned up on the Internet, as well as some art-ish nudes she did for a magazine called Black and White. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post (he also, coincidentally, owns CNN rival Fox News) delicately blared HEADLINE NUDES from its front page, while Thompson explained, "I did this as a piece of art, and I make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year...