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...devilish humor, irreverence for authority and barbed tongue were legendary. At a CBS Inc. shareholders meeting in 1986, he fell asleep at the dais -- or pretended to. He liked to refer to former CBS chief Thomas Wyman as "the goy upstairs" and to Wyman's successor, the frugal Laurence Tisch, with whom he feuded openly, as "the kike upstairs." When Tisch sold the record company to Sony, Yetnikoff, who engineered the deal, walked away with a $20 million bonus...
...angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since Laurence Tisch took over the network four years ago. Although CBS executives denied that Burke was ousted because of budget disputes, the move appeared to mark another chapter in the continuing struggle between CBS News and its cost- conscious corporate chiefs...
...long ago, screenplays seldom cost more than $300,000. But a dearth of innovative scripts and an escalation of film budgets may soon make the seven- figure script an industry standard. "The studios are creatively bankrupt," contends Steve Tisch, an independent producer. "I think the agents are aware of how scarce ideas are, and they're taking advantage of that...
...Bear Stearns chairman Alan ("Ace") Greenberg. That makes them all the more formidable at a favorite pastime of theirs: bridge. After the stock market closes, they bring their talents to high-powered card games at New York City's exclusive Regency Club. Their frequent opponents include CBS chairman Laurence Tisch and centillionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes...
...addition, it has grabbed the TV rights to several major sports events, including the baseball play-offs and World Series, the NCAA basketball tournament and the 1992 and '94 Winter Olympics -- though for sums that have been criticized as exorbitant. Some industry watchers contend that CBS, under president Laurence Tisch, is flailing for direction. But Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer insists that the big sporting events, along with a push for more adventurous programming, will help recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot anymore launch shows that simply repeat yesterday's viewing patterns," says Stringer. "That...