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• In Brief: After reporting the company's second quarter ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Cnn, Les Moonves, Sumner Redstone, Things That Wouldn T Surprise Us

  After reporting the company's second quarter earnings this morning, "a giddy Sumner Redstone, CBS's chairman, gushed about the performance of CBS and raved about the company's CEO Leslie Moonves....

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• In Brief: Viacom's third quarter profits were "bigger ...

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Mtv, Sumner Redstone S Folly, Viacom

  Viacom's third quarter profits were "bigger than expected," which sent shares up 4 percent. ("Bigger than expected," in this case, means that they dropped less than 1 percent as compared to last...

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• In Brief: Paramount—the brightest light in Viacom's ...

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:13 pm

  Tags: Cindy Adams, Even Stopped Arthritic Clock, Paramount, Sumner Redstone, Viacom

  Paramount—the brightest light in Viacom's recent earnings report— saw profits rise on ticket and DVD sales by 20 percent. So Cindy Adams is pretty sure Chairman Sumner Redstone is gonna...

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• Thy Neighbor's Wife, and Thy Own

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Gossipmonger, Brett Ratner, Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Fox, Gay Talese, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hairspray, Hillary Clinton, John Travolta, Jon Bon Jovi, Lance Bass, Meryl Streep, Nan Talese, Oscar De La Renta, Park Avenue, Sumner Redstone, Ted Koppel, Yale, Ziegfeld Theater

  she's not having any of it. Sumner Redstone tips a minimum of 40 percent but maybe does not include the cost of beverages. Brett Ratner's first experience with oral sex was with a man, though he didn't know it at the time. John Travolta has a personal umbrella holder to provide him with shade. Fox bought Irish musical Once for $500,000 at

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• In Brief: "Sources tell me that the 84-year-old Redstone ...

  Published: August 6, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Sumner Redstone, Sumner Redstone Will Fire Everyone, Viacom

  "Sources tell me that the 84-year-old Redstone wants out of his four-year-old marriage to 44-year-old schoolteacher Paula Fortunato. 'He's asked her to leave the Beverly Park house, and she won't...

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• Mtv Myspace: "Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being ...

  Published: September 14, 2007, 11:04 am

  Tags: Mtv, Mtv Myspace, Myspace, Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, Viacom

  "Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being bested by Rupert Murdoch in the bidding for MySpace two years ago? Maybe. Fortune has learned of two stealth projects that Redstone's company, Viacom, has...

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• Dan Rather suing CBS for $70 million

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:21 pm

  Tags: 60 Minutes, Andrew Heyward, Cbs Evening News, Dan Rather, Danrather, Katie Couric, Katiecouric, Les Moonves, New York Times, Newyorktimes, Sumner Redstone

  are CBS CEO Les Moonves, Sumner Redstone, and former CBS news chief Andrew Heyward. The lawsuit claims that the network forced him to step down from The CBS Evening News and did not give him enough time on 60 Minutes. He also claims that because of all this, the network aired a "biased" and "incomplete" investigation into the National Guard

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• Redstone, Geffen, Spielberg Again Make Forbes' List Of The Obscenely Wealthy

  Published: September 21, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Defamer Hollywood, David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, Sumner Redstone

  As we can think of no better way to kick off the weekend than by contemplating the staggering wealth of the Hollywood multibillionaires who can buy and sell all of us like so much cattle, we spent some time with The Forbes 400, the magazine's ranking of the absolute richest of the American rich, to check in on how some of the industry's

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• Tom Freston Once Again the Pea to Sumner Redstone's Princess

  Published: September 25, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: In Other News, Dreamworks, Sumner Redstone, Tom Freston

  That's right, the hair's real. And it's spectacular.Photo: Getty Images We're guessing Tom Freston is trying to stifle a smile as he sweats in his private ashram today, what with the news spreading that he was just appointed to the board of DreamWorks Animation. The powerful studio makes megapopular children's movies like Shark Tale and the Shrek

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• Trade Roundup: DreamWorks Ani Extends Bird Viacomward, Takes On Tom Freston

  Published: September 25, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Defamer Hollywood, Abc, Casting, Dreamworks, Jessical Biel, Justive League, Nbc, Paramount, Sumner Redstone, Tom Freston, Trade Roundup, Viacom, Warner Bros, Wonder Woman

  Animation names legendary Sumner Redstone shitcanee Tom Freston to its board of directors. That'll teach you not to fuck with a national treasure, unfeeling new CEO Phillppe Dauman! [Variety] Now here's some casting chatter we can get behind: Jessica Biel is "in talks" to play Wonder Woman in Warner Bros.' comic book megamovie Justice

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• Petty Machinations: Last week Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, anticipating ...

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: David Geffen, Dreamworks, Feuds, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Media, Petty Machinations, Philippe Dauman, Steven Spielberg, Sumner Redstone, Viacom

  Last week Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, anticipating the departure of Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg from their deal with Paramount, suggested that if the DreamWorks pair left that it would...

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• All Is Not Well in Redstone Land

  Published: October 1, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Ang Lee, Ann Moore, Carmen Kass, Chuck Prince, Clarence Thomas, Jessica Stam, Sullivan Amp Cromwell, Sumner Redstone, Wall Street

  • Sumner Redstone, the octogenarian CEO of CBS and Viacom, is trying to play all lovey-dovey with his spurned daughter Shari, but the succession to the $50 billion empire is nowhere near resolved. [LAT] • With more than a 1,000 job cuts at Time Inc. behind her, Ann Moore, the CEO who rose from the back room to the boardroom,

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• Family Feud: Have Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone and ...

  Published: October 1, 2007, 5:40 pm

  Tags: Family Feud, Media, Shari Redstone, Sumner Redstone, Viacom

  Have Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone and daughter Shari resolved this summer's feud? Maybe not! "[A]ccording to several people close to the two, relations between father and daughter are anything but...

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• Catching Up With The Feuding Redstones

  Published: October 1, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Defamer Hollywood, Dreamworks, Sumner Redstone, Viacom

  According to today's LAT, Sumner and Shari Redstone, the feudingist first family in all of show business, called a truce in their ongoing succession battle long enough to celebrate a happy occasion over Labor Day: But in August the Redstones privately agreed to a cooling-off period until after the Labor Day weekend, when Shari's 25-year-old

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• Getting To Know Philippe Dauman, Sumner Redstone's Right-Hand Hatchman

  Published: October 8, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Dreamworks, Philippe Dauman, Sumner Redstone, Viacom

  relations suicide missions Sumner Redstone dreams up while partially hypnotised by staring too intently at his collection of exotic fish, such as suing Google for copyright infringement, replacing a wildly popular executive, or blaspheming a Hollywood deity. But more impressive than the French-speaker's childhood language-acquisition skills (he

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