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...In their new book, Unscripted, journalists James B Stewart and Rachael Abrams investigate how CBS and Viacom went off the rails under the leadership of Sumner Redstone, Les Moonves and other executives....
...Other media moguls, from William Randolph Hearst to Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, fought against the dying of their influence over rivals, readers and viewers....
...Wagtail, 68 King William St, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com The Terrace at Norma A slice of Sicily on a corner of Fitzrovia....
...(FT) Tax expert’s test of ‘faith’ William Morris, deputy global tax policy leader at accounting giant PwC, is one of the former General Electric executives who negotiated a $1bn tax break that the UK now...
...The five founding partners of CAA, including Ovitz, broke away from William Morris in 1975 and became a whirlwind during the next decade....
...The average CBS board member is 74 years old, and directors include high-profile figures like William Cohen, former defence secretary, and Martha Minow, former dean of Harvard Law School....
...John Williams has been appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....
...The Forgotten Man first popped up in the 1880s, in the lectures of an egregiously popular Yale sociologist named William Graham Sumner....
...Is there anything new to say about William Eggleston, now so widely known as the godfather of American colour photography?...
...National Amusements Incorporated, the Redstone-owned holding company that controls Viacom and its sister company, CBS, said George Abrams, Philippe Dauman, Blythe McGarvie, Frederic Salerno and William Schwartz...
...William Schwartz, a board member, said: “In choosing a successor to Sumner, the board considered the need for seasoned leadership in this time of unprecedented change, Philippe’s business experience and...
...The second-largest holder of voting shares in Viacom has urged Sumner Redstone’s media group to sell a stake in its Paramount movie studio to Jack Ma’s Alibaba to generate new funds and smooth the way for...
...“It is a bit of a time-warp portfolio,” says William Thomas, a partner at the property advisers KLM....
...Bullish international investors have long ignored screenwriter William Goldman’s warning that “Nobody knows anything” about success in Hollywood....
...Owned by Sumner Redstone’s Viacom, the network now attracts an in-demand young audience at a time when TV viewership is declining and ageing....
...Then an actor who was the father of a friend set him up with a job in the mailroom at William Morris, the talent agency where Diller’s fellow media mogul David Geffen also got his break....
...If the likes of Marshall and Acheson are seen as the architects of postwar America’s leading role, then Roosevelt’s personal emissaries – Sumner Welles, William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Harry Hopkins, Averell...
...- Scott Sumner écrase l’infâme....
...Surely this made it easier, at least on the margins, for Bernanke to move in the direction of Evans/Woodford/Sumner, which he finally did at the big September meeting (also helping was what appeared at the...
...Sumner Redstone, chairman of CBS and Viacom, is known for generously rewarding his executives. Philippe Dauman, Viacom chief executive, earned $84.4m in 2010, and $43m last year....
...The two apologists for competition on whom Hofstadter hangs his indictment – Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner – sometimes worked against his thesis....
...Gregory Sumner’s Unstuck in Time seeks to correct this fault by working its way through Vonnegut’s life one book at a time....
...British luxury fashion brand Burberry has already carved out a reputation for dressing rock bands and music stars such as Bryan Ferry, Coco Sumner and One Night Only....
...Media acquisitions once came with fringe benefits: Coldplay or Robbie Williams tickets if you were Guy Hands buying EMI, or the status of saving the local paper in the case of Sam Zell when he led a takeover...
...William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Critics reacted with derision when William Eggleston’s photographs first appeared at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1976....
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