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Executives at the MTV networks stood and roared their approval at a budget meeting last November when Sumner Redstone, chairman and CEO of parent company Viacom, pledged $30 million of corporate cash to launch Logo, a gay channel that the MTV brass had regarded as a top priority. Under Viacom president and heir apparent Mel Karmazin, the channel had been delayed. But at this meeting, attended by Karmazin, Redstone openly said to MTV chief Tom Freston, "You want to do it? You have the money." Karmazin was silent. "It was a dramatic moment," Freston recalls. "All of a sudden...
...feuding. But in contrast to Redstone's creative leanings, Karmazin's focus was on running a lean operation, and by last month Karmazin had evidently tired of Redstone's upstaging him. Karmazin denies any material conflicts and says he resigned because "there was too much about Mel and Sumner, and I didn't think it would go away." He says he was concerned that press scrutiny of their relationship was hurting the company's stock price...
When it comes to shortcuts, Sandra Lee wrote the book--or two--the first of which quickly became a best seller. Lee, who was raised in Sumner, Wash., appears on the Food Network, cheerily adding a can of Campbell's mushroom soup to ground turkey and calling it Stroganoff. The 36-year-old's Semi-Homemade philosophy preaches the use of 70% prepared products and 30% fresh foods, plus a dash of ingenuity, yet this gleeful application of packaged food is far from half-baked. Lee has a multimedia deal with Miramax that includes television, books and merchandise...
...father, who gushes over everything I do, he delivered what was supposed to be a comforting speech about how many bad movies Robert De Niro has been in. I hadn't been that sad in a while. Even the thought that I had wasted $6 million of Sumner Redstone's money wasn't cheering...
...father, who gushes over everything I do, he delivered what was supposed to be a comforting speech about how many bad movies Robert De Niro has been in. I hadn't been that sad in a while. Even the thought that I had wasted $6 million of Sumner Redstone's money wasn't cheering...