October 29 - November 4, 2006
Friday, Nov. 3
Keep an eye on the opening box office this weekend for "Flushed Away," the latest offering from DreamWorks Animation that...
The latest numbers from Tradesports.com, which is a trading and betting exchange, show that the Democrats have a 75 percent...
Talk about when worlds collide. Away from his Bev Hills haunts, the CNN talk show host presided over Nasdaq's opening...
No, it isn't the opening of "Borat," the well-publicized mockumentary about the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev (aka Sacha Baron...
Jobless numbers: Nationwide unemployment in October was 4.4 percent, a five-year low, though the number of new jobs fell well...
Thursday, Nov. 2
Tribune CEO Dennis FitzSimmons had it right when he told company employees this morning that they can count on lots...
The radio business continues to struggle, reflected by CBS Corp.'s third-quarter numbers. Revenue for the company's radio operations fell 6...
The topic is bound to come up among the Hollywood chatterers speculating on his future roles for United Artists. In...
WSJ is reporting that along with "substantial ownership," Cruise and partner Paula Wagner will have control of the company's production...
This one is a Jackson Pollock for about $140 million, according to the NYT. That would be the highest price...
Tribune sale: Chicago Tribune sorts through the ramifications of the LAT owner opening up its auction to include bids for...
Wednesday, Nov. 1
It's nice to see sanity finally getting a hearing in the case against UnitedHealth's outgoing-CEO William McGuire. The California Public...
Who needs a court when "Turbo Tennis" allows you to play the game on a mobile phone? Anyway, that's the...
I'm told that the ones along Beverly Blvd. are either open or about to be open today - on schedule...
We can't seem to get anough of the Viacom chairman. In the December Vanity Fair, Bryan Burrough gets his chance...
A little away from our usual terrain, but apparently there was some buzz out of Washington this morning about the...
This has become a year-round pursuit, but November is when things become serious and THR's Martin Grove lays out all...
Power of cable: It's certainly seen in Time Warner Inc.'s third-quarter profits, which were nearly triple that of a year...
Tuesday, Oct. 31
The City Council signed off on a 10.4 percent increase, with the current fare of $2.20 per mile increasing to...
To follow up on this morning's LAO item on circulation, here are the figures for several area papers, courtesy of...
That's one of the stand-out areas in the third-quarter numbers at IAC/InterActive Corp., which is Barry Diller's media amalgam that...
Under the headline "Silent Auction," the paper has "some Wall Street bankers" speculating that a Tribune Co. committee is just...
Big real estate deal: Well, big in the world of commercial real estate anyway. L.A.-based CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.,...
Monday, Oct. 30
It's ZIP code 90071, which is part of downtown's financial district, where the average wage for 35,975 workers was $104,072....
OK, so it's in NY, but this week's New York magazine examines what billionaires get to do (Hint: a lot...
It's Ben Myerson Candy Co., which has been operating in L.A. in some form for 117 years. It's being sold...
The Westside congressman would be running the powerful House Government Reform Committee if the Democrats win the House - and...
How did Joan Palevsky come up with $200 million for the California Community Foundation? Were the World Series ratings just...
The Chicago-based media giant and parent of the LAT did receive several preliminary offers from private-equity firms for the entire...
Well, things were terrible for pretty much all the major papers in the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations FAS-FAX report....
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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