Dan Rather Packs, Leaving CBS News; Black Rock Blinks

If it’s gonna be,” Dan Rather used to intone, striding through the CBS newsroom, “it’s up to me.”

But June 20, Mr. Rather could not call the shots at CBS any longer. All he could do was refuse to let CBS call the shots, either. When the long, sometimes awkward, always passionate marriage between Read More

Mark Cuban Shows You How to Win

I know I’m supposed to like Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He’s a free spirit. He’s producing feel-good movies, like Akeelah and the Bee and Good Night, and Good Luck. He has an interesting blog that is sometimes deadon:

99pct of blogs are about what someone has to say. 99 pct of traditional Read More

Film Fraudster or Failure: Which Steve to Believe?

It must feel like déjà vu for Stephen Carlis. His former company, the Shooting Gallery, which he co-founded with Larry Meistrich, met its ignominious-and litigious-demise in the wake of the dot-com bust. Now Mr. Carlis finds himself on the brink of another legal struggle as his former employer, Steven Rosenbaum, the head of CameraPlanet-which closed Read More

December 15, 2004 – December 22, 2004

Wednesday 15th

The weather outside is frightful, we’ve had it up to here with Christmas-party Evites, and several residents of $10 million Fifth Avenue apartments have been outclassed by two flying creatures who like to eat rats -meanwhile, Osama is trimming his tree in Pakistan, everyone is suddenly wearing jaunty pea coats, The New Read More

Buyers at the Gate! Jonathan Tisch Wants Your Hamptons House

OUT-OF-THE-BLUE $10M OFFER: IT’S HOW HOUSES SELL TODAY On the day after Thanksgiving in 1992, Michael Sokol, 58, president of Marcorp Sales Inc., a textile company, and his wife, Susan Sokol, president of Pamela Dennis, a fashion company, walked into architect Peter Cook’s Southampton office. They had come to discuss plans for a house they Read More