Forbes came out with its rich people in America list, so let’s play a little game among the media set. Here are 5 media moguls, and here are 4 figures that represent their net worth. See how many you get right!
1. Rupert Murdoch
2. Ted Turner
3. Si Newhouse
4. Charles Dolan
5. Barry Read More
Call Me Ted
By Ted Turner
Grand Central, 433 pages, $30
I didn’t set out to be a billionaire,” Ted Turner writes in his long awaited autobiography, Call Me Ted. “I wanted to be a success.”
Of course, he’s much more than a “success.” Part mogul, part visionary, he revolutionized television around the Read More
DENVER — Howard Dean came up from behind and clapped Walter Mondale on the shoulder. “Joe Biden,” he said. “Great choice. Great choice.”
It was two glasses into cocktail hour on Sunday evening at the International Leaders Forum, a quadrennial powwow of foreign dignitaries hosted by the National Democratic Institute, an organization that promotes good Read More
Not this kind of Brig.
It’s been exactly a year since we’ve heard about the City’s plans for the fascinating Brig site in Wallabout. Today, however, brings an official Request for Proposals for the redevelopment of the former prison (conveniently neighboring the Brooklyn Navy Yard) into 400 new housing units.
According to Read More
In October of 2003, when he was still just an overpaid action hero and a Kennedy-by-marriage, gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was called to the mat over charges of sexual harassment that allegedly occurred over a 15-year period. No fewer than 16 women who’d known him as a bodybuilder and an actor came forward with stories Read More
In October of 2003, when he was still just an overpaid action hero and a Kennedy-by-marriage, gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger was called to the mat over charges of sexual harassment that allegedly occurred over a 15-year period. No fewer than 16 women who’d known him as a bodybuilder and an actor came forward with stories Read More
Heat is hot . Nationally, we fret about global warming, the melting of the North Pole, the Con Ed power grid. The Industrial Age made this country modern, wealthy and powerful. It made us hot, both figuratively and literally. It created the idea of heat as a … good thing.
If anybody knows this, Read More
Lou Dobbs stood atop an overgrown foothill on his 300-plusacre,Sussex County, N.J., estate and looked out at all that is his: the 30 horses and three dogs, the man-made pond, the 80-year-old mansion, the small white cottages where the stablehands live. He was talking to a stranger about his latest obsession: a yet-to-launch Web site Read More
For actor Alec Baldwin, the response is natural. “When someone pisses on your wife, you want to knock their teeth out,” he told The Transom.
The co-star of the current release The Edge , Mr. Baldwin is well aware of the consequences to celebrities who cold-cock civilians. So when he read a piece in the Read More
