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...clock signals 11 a.m., and work-weary Dallasites bide time until their noon lunch break, a smattering of songs streams over their radios. Pink kicks off a four-song music block, followed by Lenny Kravitz, Tina Turner and Led Zeppelin. These days radio listeners usually have to surf different stations to hear those four sounds, as the range of genres doesn't fall within a typical station's playlist. But not at one Dallas station--a station that has topped the ratings charts for five of the nine months since it switched formats...
What does that mean? It’s time to blast (lots of) Tina Turner. Independence is about not needing something or someone else to make you feel “okay.” At least, that’s what Tommy Jefferson wrote in his Declaration...
...wants to write a comedy, about a strike of coffin makers, featuring cameo appearances by Queen Victoria, Benny Goodman and the Platters. It's a far cry from tortured Wilson characters like Herald Loomis, the itinerant searching for his wife after spending seven years in bondage in Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Wilson's favorite among his works. But the closing line of that play might just as well apply to a playwright ready for the next leg of his remarkable career: "You shining like new money!" --With reporting by Kate Novack/New York City
Hewitt, concerned about recent CBS takeover attempts by Ted Turner and a right-wing group called Fairness in Media, says he was only trying to protect the news division from possible meddling by ideologues and corporate raiders. Yet some CBS staffers contend that Hewitt was implicitly taking a swipe at the team of Van Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Edward Joyce, president of CBS News. Though Hewitt denies that Sauter and Joyce were his targets, many CBS employees blame the duo for low morale within the division. At the same time, an internal struggle...
...been in trouble since the summer, when Atlanta Entrepreneur Ted Turner launched a $5.4 billion takeover bid. The company escaped Turner's clutches by buying back 21% of its stock, but it did that by taking on increased debt, which has forced the firm to cut expenses and trim its staff...