TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,James B.
AU  - Abrams,Rachel
TI  - Unscripted: the epic battle for a media empire and the Redstone family legacy 
SN  - 9781984879424
AV  - HD2796.P373 S73 2023
U1  - 658.1/145 23/eng/20221104
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Redstone, Sumner
KW  - Redstone, Shari
KW  - Moonves, Leslie
KW  - Viacom Inc
KW  - CBS Corp
KW  - Corporations
KW  - United States
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Management
KW  - Executives
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-383) and index; Contenido: Season 1: The Redstone Dynasty
Sumner in a Skirt

Sumner Will Live Forever

The Inner Circle VIP Social Club

What’s Mine Is Yours

You Know How He Is about Women

I Want My 45 Million Back

Season 2: The Long War
This Is Your Family

You Want to Go to War?

I’d Better Not Tell Manuela

Operation Freedom

I Never Thought I’d See You Again

I’m Not Going to Fire Him

This Is Your Battle Not Mine

A Public Spectacle

A Modern-Day Love Story

No One Likes Drama

An Overwhelming Stench of Greed

Don’t Go Near This

Season 3: The Fall of Les Moonves
We All Did That

If Bobbie Talks

I Was a Good Guy

I Feel Sick All the Time

This Is Insanity

Pencils Down

All-Out War

Season 4: The Reckoning
A Blatant Abuse of Power

I Was Never a Predator

What the Hell Are You Doing?

Let’s Not Get Ahead of Ourselves

He Wants to Destroy Me

This Is a Deal Breaker

A Once Unfathomable Outcome

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
N2  - "The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount-the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster-hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer-a lawsuit that placed Sumner's deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light. As one of the last in a long line of all-powerful media moguls, Sumner had been a relentlessly demanding boss, and an even more demanding father. When his daughter, Shari, took control of her father's business, she faced the hostility of boards and management who for years had heard Sumner disparage his daughter. Les Moonves, the popular CEO of CBS, felt particularly threatened. Scheming with his allies on the board, Moonves worked to strip Shari of power. But while he publicly battled Shari, news began to leak that Moonves had been involved in multiple instances of sexual misconduct, and he began working behind the scenes to try to make the stories disappear. Unscripted is an explosive and unvarnished look at the usually secret inner workings of two public companies, their boards of directors, and a wealthy family in the throes of seismic changes. Through the microcosm of this company, whose once victorious business model of cable fees and ticket sales is crumbling under the assault of technological advances, and whose workplace is undergoing radical change in the wake of #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and a distaste for the old guard, New York Times reporters James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams lay bare the battle for power at any price-and the carnage that ensued"--
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