As the year comes to a close, the Business Sheet has taken a tally of how much this city's moguls have lost in the great economic bonfire of 2008. The damage--which reaches into the billions--makes us wonder if when the economic cleansing is all said and done, if there will even be any more billiona...

Sumner Redstone is so desperate for cash, he might not even be a billionaire any more. So he's decided his daughter will take the fall, and is embarrassing her with a huge public fight this morning. The Times , Wall Street Journal , Post — everyone has some kind of story about the infighting, ...

To hell with the SAG strike: The real feud set to engulf Hollywood's acting community is simmering in the tony enclave of Beverly Park. There, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington and Sylvester......

"I don't want to die. I love what I'm doing," said Viacom chief Sumner Redstone on CNBC yesterday. My, what a positive and also extremely sad quote! Coming from an old, old man like Redstone, it's more of a last-ditch prayer to Father Time than a peppy statement of on-the-job satisfaction. After the...

"I don't want to die. I love what I'm doing," said Viacom chief Sumner Redstone on CNBC yesterday. My, what a positive and also extremely sad quote! Coming from an old, old man like Redstone, it's more of a last-ditch prayer to Father Time than a peppy statement of on-the-job satisfaction. After the...

Think of how easy it might have been to understand Arianna Huffington's bloggy animus toward Tim Russert if there were a book out chronicling all the sordid details of their decade-and-a-half-long secret feud. (There is.) Every gossip-mongering gadabout should know the full backstory on every spat, ...

In spite of what I said about no hard feelings, there ain't no way that I'm gonna let this one slide...Many of you no doubt remember what happened between me and Viacom several months ago, regarding the first TV commercial from my 2006 school board campaign.To quickly recap: months after the electio...

We’re starting to think that Oprah Winfrey is some kind of mystical genie, you know. Just look at Tom Cruise. Just the other week he was in the worst professional state of his career, then he zipped over to Oprah and - blam - there’s suddenly a lot of talk about him returning to Paramoun...

The week that started with Les Moonves and Phillipe Dauman kickboxing in Sumner Redstone's corporate steel cage will apparently end with Dauman retreating to his corner of the Viacom boardroom for medical attention. Or at least that's the impression we glean from today's gloom-and-doom survey of the...

Photo: Getty Images Lydia Hearst has landed a minor role on Gossip Girl. We cannot think of a single better thing we've learned on a Tuesday, ever. Lindsay Lohan is so protective of girlfriend Samantha Ronson that she yelled at Ashley Olsen for saying hi to her at the Beatrice Inn. Tarlton Morton, t...