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...Senior Walt Disney executives led a rebellion against chief executive Bob Chapek in recent weeks, which resulted in his ousting and replacement with predecessor Bob Iger, according to people familiar with...
...Walt Disney last year awarded Bob Iger a $10mn deal to advise his successor Bob Chapek despite the two executives at the media company barely being on speaking terms....
...Pink Floyd’s surviving band members are in their late 70s and are looking to follow stars such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen who have sold their song catalogues for hundreds of millions of dollars in...
...While this is not back on the market, says the gallery’s George Lionel Barker, archival photographs of Boty taken by Michael Ward and also on show are £3,000....
...Relations between Iger and his chosen successor, Bob Chapek, were famously strained and ended with Chapek’s ousting last year....
...Such was the fate of Bob Chapek, the chief executive of Disney who was unceremoniously ejected this week after just 33 months in the job....
...Bob Iger, who served as Disney chief executive for 15 years, has stunned Hollywood by returning to replace his successor Bob Chapek after a rocky tenure that lasted just 33 months....
...Looney is a director of Rosneft, as is Bob Dudley, the former chief executive of BP....
...The challenge for Paramount’s chief executive Bob Bakish is now to relaunch a sale process for Simon & Schuster in more challenging market conditions....
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...Phrases were roared as though through a carnival barker’s loud hailer, such as the ending to a spit-and-sawdust version of Johnny Mercer’s 1942 standard, “That Old Black Magic”....
...On one occasion, we were interviewing some lady, and she was showing us bits and bobs and telling us about other stuff....
...Luckily too, the Barker Hangar was the drop-off point for Los Angeles’ many taxis, so was busy....
...Recent hits include Rage by Bob Woodward and the family memoirs of Mary Trump....
...Ian Shaw opened the evening with the songbook classic “Small Day Tomorrow”, written by Bob Dorough and Fran Landesman. Shaw swooped from low to high and the orchestra was punchy and swung....
...“I don’t think I was prepared for the quiet,” said Bob, a former stock trader from north London....
...Bob Ward proposed (Letters, May 21) that the UK Oil and Gas Authority revoke all current oil exploration licences in order to help achieve a net zero carbon dioxide emissions target....
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...is not the way to cut CO2 / From DK Barker, Newport Beach, CA, US...
...Even the company’s own executives initially shied away from the streaming war, with chief executive Bob Bakish positioning ViacomCBS as an “arms dealer” — producing shows and then selling them to Netflix...
...Additional reporting by Alex Barker...
...He is actually taking control of the Disney organisation from Bob Iger,” said another person who has worked closely with both....
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