Smash! Pow! Bam! Why superheroes go bankrupt.(investor Ron Perelman)

Reason | October 1, 2002| | Copyright

MEGA-INVESTOR RON Perelman has all the traits of a comic book supervillain. He's massively wealthy and powerful More to the point, he exudes enough vanity and overreach to make Lex Luthor and Dr. Doom seem like a couple of Girl Scouts. So it's not surprising to see Perelman slugging it out with rival billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn on the cover of Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire...And Both Lost!!! (Broadway Books). As described by journalist Dan Raviv, the board room brouhaha between Perelman arid Icahn isn't just the most ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Ugly brown soap lathers up Mayas' magic
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ; ...white Dove bars. "That, my dear, is the secret of the Mayas," I told him. "It looks like a fungus," he said. I...lavender potions had attracted friends eager to sample some Mayan magic. So, while keeping his job in Hispanic marketing at MCI Communications...
MAYA MAGIC WOWS DELHI
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times ; ...Municipal elections when it won 17 seats to open its account this time, and handsomely. The party is hoping to recreate the magic of Uttar Pradesh using the same combination of upper caste and lower caste votes that won her the state. "It is the opposition...
Maya magic wows Delhi.
News Wire article from: Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India) ; ...Municipal elections when it won 17 seats to open its account this time, and handsomely. The party is hoping to recreate the magic of Uttar Pradesh using the same combination of upper caste and lower caste votes that won her the state. It is the opposition...
'Modi, Maya magic won't work in state'
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times ; Rajendra Aklekar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 23 -- Only the "Shiv Sena pattern" will work in Maharashtra. Talking to reporters at his Bandra residence on his 81st birthday, Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray rubbished the influence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh
Of multitudes, masti & Maya magic
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times ; NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 10 -- HAD ALL the rallyists converged there together, the 60-acre Ramabai Ambedkar Rally Sthal, the biggest ground in the State capital, would have looked tiny. But at a given point of time between 10 am and 2 pm, just as much crowd trooped out of the area as it walked in.
Maya's magic cuts across caste lines
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times ; NEW DELHI, India, May 12 -- IT IS not just the Dalit-Muslim-Brahmin combination that helped the BSP in the assembly elections. A detailed analysis of caste affiliations of elected members reveals that the party's support base has gone beyond caste and community barriers. Contrary to expectations,
Maya's Magic The social remix that the BSP supremo engineered pays rich dividends as it creates a new electoral order that brings together mutually antagonistic groups under one political umbrella
Newspaper article from: India Today ; Nothing brings out the fighter in Mayawati like an impending election. In the 23 years that she has spent in public life, she has often outpaced her rivals with speed, stamina, perseverance and tenacity. She won some, lost some. This time, she was determined to win. That, of course, meant taking
Will Maya's magic work here?
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times ; Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, April 25 -- As Karnataka is facing a triangular fight in most of the Assembly segments in the upcoming Assembly polls, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) is also testing the current. In fact for the first time in the
ILM employs Maya for Episode III.(Industrial Light and Magic, Alias Maya)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Post ; SAN RAFAEL, CA -- Alias Maya was the chief 3D animation technology...Throughout the film's production, Maya was ILM's main animation and previz...Kenobi, were also created with the help of Maya. Yoda appears in 173 shots in the film...
Industrial Light + Magic Chooses Alias/Wavefront's Maya Software for Creating Advanced Visual Effects
PR Newswire ; ...with Industrial Light + Magic (ILM) for the use of Maya(TM) software. As...see our hard-work on Maya receiving such positive...it's clear that with Maya, Alias|Wavefront has...Industrial Light + Magic; Silicon Graphics...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Smash! Pow! Bam! Why superheroes go ..."