Terrence Elkes, 73, President of Viacom in â80s, Dies
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Mr. Elkes rose to become president of Viacom and oversaw some major acquisitions, which began the transformation of Viacom into a major entertainment company.
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The popular comedian of yesteryears had been suffering from breathing problems for the last several days. He passed away on February 13 in Mumbai.
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Soon after Johnny Carson's death last weekend, NBC announced the 79-year-old entertainer had died of emphysema, a respiratory disease that can be attributed to smoking.
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Law and Order and Dirty Dancing actor Jerry Orbach dies of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
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Rex Hardesty, who was the chief spokesman for the AFL-CIO during a turbulent time for the labor movement in the 1980s, is dead at 67.
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The Viacom chairman, Sumner Redstone, is committed to his familyÂs holding of Midway Games, the ailing videogame game maker.
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Viacom Inc. VIAb.N on Tuesday said   Chief Executive and President Tom Freston resigned and will be   replaced by Philippe Dauman, a longtime associate of the   company's chairman Sumner Redstone.
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Viacom said Tuesday its current president and CEO Tom Freston has resigned his position with the company.
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Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures unit  is ending its 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise's film  production company because of the actor's offscreen behavior,  the company's chairman said in an interview with the Wall  Street Journal.
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Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday. He was 68.
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NEW YORK -- Media and entertainment company Viacom Inc. on Tuesday said Tom Freston has resigned as its president and chief executive, and named industry veteran Philippe P. Dauman to replace him.
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Viacom Inc. on Thursday named Joel Hollander as chairman and chief executive officer of its Infinity radio unit in a shake-up of top management that comes as it prepares to sell dozens of stations to boost business amid an industry-wide slump.
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Mime icon Marcel Marceau, the world's most honored and respected practitioner of what might be America's most ridiculed art form, has died.  He was 84.  In Marceau's native France, President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of mourners by saying, "Fran...
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Will Eisner, a master of American comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at age 87, his publisher said on Tuesday.
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Austria's supposed richest man, retired industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick, dies at 79, say Austrian media.
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It's Tom Cruise vs. Sumner Redstone in a case of I quit-you're fired at Hollywood's highest level. On one side is the chairman of Viacom, Inc., which owns Paramount Pictures. On the other is the industry's biggest and most bankable star, whose last seven films have each generated over $100 million.
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The Philippine film legend who came close to defeating Gloria Arroyo in the presidential race in May died early today after suffering a stroke.