About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Sumner Redstone, Steve Ross, Tom McGrath, Guy Garcia, Stephen Chao, Michael Ovitz, Jaffer Ali, Les Garland, Barry Zorthian, Sidney Sheinberg, Al Neuharth, Lew Wasserman, Bob Iger, Paul Miller, Michele Ruiz, Nancy Nigrosh, Kay B. Barrett, John Ptak, Merrill Brown, Natalie Kalmus, Charles Rivkin, Craig Bromberg, William Hugh Kling, Brian L. Roberts, Christine Essel, Marc Collins-Rector, Warren Lieberfarb, Jeff Kwatinetz, Woody Erdman, Carl E. Milliken, Baba Ali, Frank Shakespeare, Marcella Rabwin, Dawn Steel, Rob Curley, Anthony Thomopoulos, Jon Petrovich, Jeffrey Bewkes, David Hiller, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Alan Greenberg, Sandy Close, Bruce L. Christensen, Wallace Ray Davis, Thomas E. Dooley, Robert Decherd, Lowell Selvin, Russell J. Wintner, Alan N. Braverman, William C. Marcil, Roger L. Ogden, Peter Roth, John Landgraf, Keith Samples, Carl Folta, Arthur Siskind, Barry Ackerley, Kevin Wassong, Alan F. Horn. Excerpt: Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein; May 27, 1923) is an American media magnate, majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Sumner Redstone and his family are majority owners of CBS Corporation, Viacom, MTV Networks, BET, and the film studio Paramount Pictures, and are equal partners in MovieTickets.com. Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Belle (nee Ostrovsky) and Michael Rothstein. His family's name was changed from the Jewish surname Rothstein to Redstone when Sumner was 17. His father was the owner of the Northeast Theater Corporation in Dedham, Massachusetts - the forerunner of National Amusements. He also owned the Boston branch of the Latin Quarter Nightclub. Redstone attended the Boston Latin School, where he graduated first in his class. He then attended Harvard College, where he completed his...
