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...RUPERT ("MADONNA LOVES ME") EVERETT AGE: 41 OCCUPATION: actor/fashion fixture BEST PUNCH: Referred to ex-chum as "that big blob," and regretted "there's not a closet big enough for him to hide...
...music fan and newly minted golf nut from Hobbs, N.M. His fashion sense is decidedly more WWF than PGA: tank top and shorts, shaved head, piercings and a sun tattoo across one forearm. "Golf shouldn't be about age or tax bracket," he barks. Laughs Michael Caruso, editor of Rupert Murdoch's new Gen-X magazine Maximum Golf (which claims a circulation of 300,000): "There's something to be said for anything that explodes the old form. Whether these things will ever catch on, I'm doubtful. When was the last time anybody invented a new sport...
...Wall Street Journal and New York Times both ran major stories Thursday profiling the desperate state of affairs in Hollywood. Movie moguls, their fourth homes mortgaged to the hilt, are panicking: Why, they cry, why aren't people going to the movies?! Fox head honcho Rupert Murdoch has apparently reached the end of his admittedly very short rope, firing the top guy at Fox studios (which you may remember as the home of a little film called "Titanic...
...stuck to his show-biz guns. He shelled out $10.4 billion for Polygram music in 1998, making his family's 76-year-old liquor business look like a sidelight. Bronfman has since been shopping his empire to the usual mogul suspects: Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone and News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, among others...
...such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree: No one entity may own more than one news outlet in any city, and no company may own more than one broadcast network. Such rules, for example, led to media mogul Rupert Murdoch being obliged to divest himself of the Boston Herald in the early '90s as a condition of his purchase of Fox's Boston affiliate...