April 29 - May 5, 2007
Saturday, May. 5
The deal-making bad boy in Oliver Stone's 1987 "Wall Street" is being revived in a sequel called "Money Never Sleeps,"...
It's the biggest box office opening ever in the U.S., taking in $59 million on Friday, according to Nikki Finke,...
Friday, May. 4
This was the replacement ordinance passed by the L.A. City Council that requires LAX-area hotel operators to pay their workers...
It's Beverly Hills, about noon, at a crosswalk on Canon Drive (a half block south of Little Santa Monica). There's...
Media buyer John Rash goes through this week's top 10 shows for Ad Age (in the all-important 18-49 demographic, of...
That's as in very early reaction - a little after one in the morning, as shot by NY Mag for...
A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected claims that Marilyn Monroe's "right of publicity" had been violated when photos of...
The Newport Beach-based guru of bond trading made news a couple of weeks back with word that he was auctioning...
Microsoft-Yahoo merger?: The NY Post reports this morning that Microsoft has asked Yahoo to re-enter formal negotiations (Microsoft was turned...
Thursday, May. 3
Most cities would kill for an NBA Weekend, but Vegas is not most cities. MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni told...
Jim Cramer of CNBC and The Street.com fame is wrong about a lot of things, but he's probably onto something...
There's a small group of L.A. investment bankers whose careers have more or less moved in lockstep - from Drexel...
I'm a little late on this one, but data gatherer TNS is out with its annual survey of millionaires -...
L.A. billionaire Haim Saban gives Fortune a peek of how he does business in a profile that gets into his...
CBS slumps: First-quarter net income fell 5.9 percent, in part because of a 9 percent drop in operating income -...
Wednesday, May. 2
After meeting this afternoon, the board issued a statement confirming that about 80 percent of the Bancroft family's voting power...
It's become the most frequently cited metric of a law firm's performance, but Bill Henderson, a law professor at Indiana...
That's how Dean Starkman glumly - and probably accurately - describes this morning's full WSJ coverage of Rupert Murdoch's buyout...
Battling for Dow Jones: Is the Bancroft family united in its opposition to Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for Dow...
Tuesday, May. 1
That's assuming there is a battle. Some members and trustees of the Bancroft family, Dow Jones' controlling shareholders, say they...
They should be back tomorrow. Light posting today....
The LAT has a "hey Martha" piece on p1 about those folks who twirl signs that advertise everything from Subway...
That's the average price of a gallon of self-serve regular in the L.A. area, according to the federal government's latest...
Monday, Apr. 30
How did Sam Zell manage to avoid a huge tax bill in the Tribune deal? Newsweek's Allan Sloan found a...
The six-month numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show the Times down to 815,723 daily, a 4.2 percent drop,...
Love it, hate it: A survey of L.A. business executives finds general optimism about the local economy, but ongoing gripes...
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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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After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.
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