The Observer has learned that former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt, an entrepreneur and Democratic fund-raiser, will close the deal to pay around $70 million to French-owned Vivendi Universal this week, making them the owners of the tiny digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI), moving Mr. Gore from politics to mini-media-moguldom.
Mr. Read More
In one of her first moves as head of the parents’ association at the Lycée Français de New York, Antoinette Fleisch announced that she would create a position of vice president to ensure transparency in the school’s financial dealings.
Elected on June 8 to serve as the new president of the body representing the parents Read More
On Friday, April 2, the nearly year-long bid by former Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt to buy TV channel Newsworld International, or NWI, from Vivendi Universal-which looked like a done deal a few days before-stumbled into the twin state of which Mr. Gore must have had his fill: uncertainty and Read More
The Observer has learned that former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt, an entrepreneur and Democratic fund-raiser, will close the deal to pay around $70 million to French-owned Vivendi Universal this week, making them the owners of the tiny digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI), moving Mr. Gore from politics to mini-media-moguldom.
Mr. Read More
The Observer has learned that the deal for former Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt to acquire digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI) has hit a major obstacle and may have fallen through in the 11th hour of negotiations.
Sources familiar with the situation said that one of Mr. Gore’s crucial investors Read More
Last September, New York’s film industry gathered for the IFP Gotham Awards at Chelsea Piers. Before director Ang Lee accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award, a reel of his clips ran, concluding with a preview-the brief eyeball-bulging bit of celluloid now familiar to anyone with a television-of Mr. Lee’s upcoming movie, The Hulk . It was Read More
What is George Pataki thinking? At a time when many New Yorkers are feeling an acute economic pinch, and with his own approval rating at its lowest level-37 percent-since he took office, the Governor is engaging in some unsavory cronyism which is both bad politics and terrible public relations. It’s one thing for the Governor Read More
The Middle East has seen plenty of tall, pale men since the American infidels set their sights on Saddam Hussein, but perhaps no one as tall or as pale as Conan O’Brien. Sources at Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the U.S.O. told The Transom that Mr. O’Brien, along with the executive producer of his Read More
Though Vivendi has already made $12 million by putting the Seagram art collection on the block, it may be disappointed with the sale of the collection’s largest work (in terms of both proportion and price): the stage curtain that Pablo Picasso painted in 1919 for Sergei Diaghilev’s ballet, Le Tricorne .
But help may-emphasis on Read More
On Sept. 19, marketing agents for the new Richard Meier–designed glass buildings on Perry Street along the Hudson River threw a quiet open-house party to announce that Martha Stewart’s duplex unit was on the market for $8 million. A few naked light bulbs set off the bleak, gray cement floors in a raw space that Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
