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...ultimate market bet, Jerre Stead, chief executive officer of Ingram Micro, asked for and got a pay package that contains no salary--just options on 3.6 million Ingram shares. He is part of a budding movement of executives and directors who prefer the promise of the market to hard cash...
...Roth, who could barely contain his joy at being back with Van Halen at the MTV awards last month, got just as emotional when he found out his new gig was temporary, circulating a histrionic open letter claiming he had been deceived. Most likely joining the band in his stead: Extreme's Gary Cherone, whose voice Eddie Van Halen has described as "like an angel...
...recast, for example--but this year changes have been far more sweeping. In one of the most talked-about shifts, ABC's drama Murder One, which failed to keep viewers hooked last year despite lavish acclaim, will lose the solemnly didactic lead attorney played by Daniel Benzali. In his stead is younger, rich-of-hair Anthony LaPaglia. Another change: instead of following a single trial over the course of the season as it did last year, this time Murder One will track three consecutively...
...enough. And I state this as a theoretical principle, rather than a confession of personal inadequacy. A recent issue of PEOPLE magazine revealed that even the "most beautiful stars" are not allowed to display their own bodies in nude and seminude scenes. "Body doubles" are employed in their stead--anorectic aerobicists, one must assume, 85% of whom, PEOPLE reports, have silicone implants...
Whichever, Diller's ferocity has stood him in good stead since his William Morris mail-room days; he attended a party thrown by childhood friend Marlo Thomas and got into a characteristically vituperative argument with Leonard Goldberg, then a vice president at ABC. The older man, impressed with Diller's "willfulness"--Diller's word (again)--eventually offered him a job at the network. There he helped invent the mini-series, popularized TV movies and had the perspicacity to hire young Michael Eisner away from his job as a CBS children's programmer...