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...added more physical humor," said Sturges, who hopes to attend the Tisch School for the Arts. "We were running through a hall-way in place, we really got into the characters...
...kingdom people expected Diller would survey when he walked out on his job as chairman of Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox in 1992 and told the world he yearned to own a network of his own. His assumed ambition was to be a Murdoch, or even a Laurence Tisch...
...DECISION CAME SWIFTLY AND with little drama. CBS shareholders, in a meeting last Thursday at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, voted overwhelmingly to approve a $5.4 billion buyout offer from the Westinghouse Electric Corp. Before the vote, however, chairman Laurence Tisch had to face the usual gauntlet of indignities. One disgruntled stockholder rose to celebrate "being liberated from the Tisch regime." Another castigated the chief executive's record and said he had "presided over the destruction of CBS as a cultural and educational leader." (Tisch defended his decision to sell off the record and publishing divisions...
...scrapping of the Wigand interview prompted instant speculation that news decisions had fallen victim to the corporate bottom line, it was force of habit. Since taking control of CBS in 1986, Tisch has been a bottom-line boss. He sold off key pieces of the company (notably CBS's publishing and music divisions), instituted drastic cost-cutting measures and shied away from paying big bucks at key junctures. Two years ago, CBS lost its perennial Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. football franchise when it was outbid for the games by Rupert Murdoch's Fox network. A few months later the network lost...
...officials have declined to give any details of their plans for the network. But Westinghouse, a veteran broadcaster that owns five TV and 16 radio stations, is known in the business as an aggressive cost cutter. Observers both inside and outside CBS think that doesn't bode well. "Larry Tisch has cut costs considerably over the years," says Dennis McAlpine, media analyst at Josephthal, Lyon & Ross. "The headquarters at Black Rock is decimated. There isn't that much [left] to get rid of. And this is at a time when they're supposedly going to attract new programming to build...