March 4 - March 10, 2007
Friday, Mar. 9
•More complications for Amgen's anemia drugs Aranesp and Epogen. Both will get stronger warnings about serious health effects, including death....
Call it the illusion of originality. Instead of airing a plain old repeat that will get only so-so ratings, why...
Federal Reserve Gov. Susan Bies didn't tell us anything in a speech today that we didn't already know - that...
Decent employment news: The U.S. February jobless rate fell to 4.5 percent from 4.6 percent the previous month (that's the...
Thursday, Mar. 8
The Irvine-based mortgage company specializing in subprime loans has stopped accepting loan applications, which is another sign that the end...
There's being rich and there's being ludicrously rich. Forbes deals with that latter category in its annual ranking of the...
Based on an internal investigation, CEO Bobby Kotick is in the clear, as far as "intentional wrongoing" in the way...
Well, what do you think is going to happen when someone with a poor credit history can "buy" a house...
Back at those CAA HQs, Nikki Finke hears about a mandate to cut expenses by a whopping 20 percent. That...
He's Henry Winterstern and his resignation last week as CEO of First Look Pictures, an upstart independent, is another example...
Ratings-wise, the Katie Couric Evening News seems to be going nowhere fast, so CBS News President Sean McManus is bringing...
Verizon has a serious outage problem, so LA Biz Observed is more or less shut down for now. No morning...
Wednesday, Mar. 7
Wallstrip.com has a video clip of the real Suze Orman and a made-up version doing an impersonation of Jim Cramer....
Katie Couric isn't exactly taking the ratings world by storm and Rebecca Dana wonders in Slate whether there are some...
The former Lakers great and his joint-venture partner, Canyon -Johnson Urban Fund, are providing $12.4 million of financing to help...
Toilets, refrigerators, beds, medicine cabinets and cereal boxes are apparently pretty terrible places, according to PFAdvice.com, which got the skinny...
At least parts of it. The Santa Monica-based subprime lender is talking to as many as six suitors, according to...
Flat market: A pretty low-key first hour on Wall Street (for a change), with the Dow up just a shade....
Tuesday, Mar. 6
The stock market had a good day - finally. The Dow was up 157 points, or 1.3 percent, and most...
Michael Eisner could be in store for a bit of a rumble. As noted earlier, his investment company, along with...
Some of the high-end boutiques within a couple of blocks of The Ivy are shelling out $17 a square foot,...
Market bounceback?: They're calling it "Turnaround Tuesday" and stocks are indeed up this morning, but not by all that much...
Monday, Mar. 5
Nikki Finke reports that THR's Cynthia Littleton and Anne Thompson are jumping to Variety. Littleton, who had been editor of...
They must be close to pulling the plug at Irvine-based New Century, while Fremont General's condition is extremely critical. It's...
Another bad day: Well, a bad opening, for sure. Asian and European markets were down today and that will cascade...
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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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