March 11 - March 17, 2007
Friday, Mar. 16
We seem to be in the goofy zone this afternoon, so here's one more: nightclub owner, film producer and man...
The Mouse House has finished up its inquiry into backdating options at Pixar, which it now owns, and has concluded...
ShaRon Lewis might have pulled a fast one. She was used in an anecdotal quote for the Times' March 10...
Is John McCain still running for president? You wouldn't know it, judging from the California bidness heavyweights who have jumped...
Looks like Joachim Splichal's Patina Restaurant Group has some company in the bidding for steak house chain Smith & Wollensky....
Zell losing steam: WSJ, NYT and Chicago Tribune report that yet another bid for the Tribune from yet another billionaire...
Thursday, Mar. 15
It's the annual Calpers rundown of companies that have failed in the area of corporate governance and financial performance. Ten...
That's what forecasters are telling the WSJ in one of the paper's periodic surveys. Slightly more than half of the...
There's a lot of rumble in the newsroom these days about people moving here to there - and some of...
Et tu, Dow?: Yeah, this is the Ides of March, all right, and the market has gotten so nutty these...
Wednesday, Mar. 14
Not only that, but the market actually picked up 56 points on the day - not bad considering that the...
It's the old farts at Viacom vs. the youngins at YouTube. The old model of actually paying for content vs....
Can't this guy cut a deal without complications? The former Mouse House CEO has gotten the baseball card company Topps...
Literally. I've heard there's some sort of sign hanging over the LAT's Spring Street exit that reads -30-, which is...
Could be another tough one. The Dow is down about 80 points at mid-session, but more ominously the index is...
Market stabilizes: A fourth-quarter profit by GM has gotten Wall Street into a more positive mood this morning - the...
Tuesday, Mar. 13
Just when you think the city of L.A. can't possibly get any more misguided about downtown development, along comes the...
Anything having to do with real estate took big hits - no doubt the fallout from worries about subprime financing....
That would be Korea's Red Mango yogurt, which opens its first U.S. location in Westwood in May. It was in...
As in L.A. attorney Robert Shapiro, who is representing Angels centerfielder Gary Matthews Jr. in connection with a government case...
Chick Hearn would have called it nervous time. Wall Street remains jittery about whether the subprime tumult might spill over...
Viacom sues Google: The media giant is alleging "massive intentional copyright infringement" of Viacom's entertainment properties on YouTube, which is...
Monday, Mar. 12
Weren't prices supposed to be falling this year? So far, they're increasing. The latest February numbers from DataQuick show that...
The latest numbers released by the government this afternoon show that an average gallon of self-serve regular in the L.A....
That it's even being called as much is a sacrilege, but here goes: NY magazine's Grub Street discovers a place...
Another decent and unspectacular day on Wall Street. The Dow was up 42 points, with airlines, utilities and biotech issues...
Subprime mess: OC's New Century Financial said this morning that it's losing all short-term funding from its bank lenders, another...
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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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