Word: tisch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conversation with Gewanter, it came out that in the past four years four of his former students have found their way to Saturday Night Live, and he's talked to "friends at TV Nation" about others. A number are studying now at top-notch film programs like USC and TISCH at NYU. And Gewanter's only been here since...
...anybody can break the spell, says Hollywood royalty, it's the Katzenberg Kids. Film producer Steve Tisch, who is a close Katzenberg friend, says he would "love to be aligned with them. Plenty of executives would like to work for them -- I hear a lot of Xerox machines running today." Even Disney chairman Michael Eisner, who will not be sending his resume to Katzenberg, gives the troika a rave review. "Competition ignites and stimulates excellence," he says, "and for that I wish them well. I think they'll do well. And I think they'll force us to do even...
...over the past 20 years. But the perception of crime has changed; now it's the No. 1 enemy. Every night on the news it's back-to-back murder and body bags. Even the national news is perverted, because the news has become a profit-oriented enterprise since Tisch took over CBS. It's the old yellow journalism. Now that communism is dead, they need new demons. This virus has infected us all -- the demons within us and among...
...when, say, a home-shopping channel wants to merge with a television network, right? Yet the juicy story line that usually comes with takeovers among media moguls is showing up in all corners of American industry these days. In fact, while the buzz is with Ted (Turner) and Larry (Tisch), the guys who are throwing real money around in their bids to consolidate belong to such unglitzy businesses as railroads and banks. Now it can be said: the '90s were never meant to be the decade of small appetites...
Just hours before the boards of CBS and QVC were to vote on a planned merger, Comcast Corp. -- the nation's third largest cable company and a minority shareholder in QVC -- launched a surprise bid for the QVC cable network it helped found. As CBS chairman Laurence Tisch quickly dropped the merger offer and announced a $1.1 billion stock buyback, analysts speculated that the network remains vulnerable to a takeover...