Relations between Sumner and his daughter Shari were apparently cordial enough for the two to have dinner the other night at NY's Il Postino. The NY Post is calling it "an apparent make-up session," but the two sat at opposite sides of the table in between a bunch of other people - and Sumner left without giving Shari so much as a hug (how do they come up with this stuff?). He then flew back to L.A. Absent from the dinner was Sumner's wife, Paula, and Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman (hmmmm, must mean something, right?). A spokesman for Sumner insists there's no war between father and daughter.
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