Christine Peters: My 18-Year Relationship With Sumner Redstone (Guest Column)

Rich Ferraro Each year the list of Emmy nominees is rightfully analyzed and scrutinized for diversity. The list of LGBTQ Emmy nominees is then further examined for its own racial and gender diversity, but that analysis consistently has overlooked the geographic diversity of LGBTQ people.

Billy Hayes Billy Hayes, author of the autobiographical book “Midnight Express,” on which the film directed by Alan Parker and written by Oliver Stone was based, disagreed with several of the assertions made in Stone’s new book, “Chasing the Light.”Oliver Stone, acknowledged master of revisionist history, has made several self-serving comments about me and the film version of “Midnight Express” in his new book.

It’s rare when two “once-in-a-lifetime” events occur in your life: Finding out you’ve been nominated for an Emmy and living in the middle of a pandemic. When it rains, it pours COVID-19.

Liza Marshall Guest ContributorWe were five weeks away from shooting the second season of “Temple,” our show for Sky starring Mark Strong, when the U.K. went into lockdown.

John Ridley The murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd and the peaceful protests that followed sparked soul searching in Hollywood, including a Blackout Tuesday shutdown in solidarity to Black Lives Matter protests, and the enactment of diversity measures to hopefully create a more inclusive industry culture.

Thirteen years ago, I had an idea of filming a highly educated person discussing a history story while highly intoxicated. Afterward, we’d reenact the drunken tale, lip-syncing the modern phrases and swears, word for word.

Tim Richards Guest ContributorThere is a moment in one of Christopher Nolan’s blockbusters when he borrows a poem from Dylan Thomas to send shivers down the back of a million cinema seats. “Do not go gentle into that good night,” intones Michael Caine as the heroes of “Interstellar” strap in on a mission to save humanity.

Mae Hamilton Though she bought it not even three years ago, Sydney Holland — the 48-year-old self-proclaimed philanthropist, producer, art collector and ex-flame of recently-deceased billionaire media tycoon Sumner Redstone — has hoisted her stylish Pacific Palisades mansion onto the market.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorIn life, Sumner Redstone expended considerable energy to promote his legend as a daring and cutthroat media mogul who amassed one of the world’s largest collections of TV and film assets.After his death at the age of 97 on Aug.

Bo Derek is opening up about her relationship with John Corbett.

Sumner Redstone, who built a media empire from his family's drive-in movie chain, has died. He was 97.

NEW YORK — Viacom and CBS Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, the media mogul who took his father’s movie theatre chain and built it into an empire that included Paramount Pictures, CBS and MTV, has died at 97, ViacomCBS and National Amusements said on Wednesday.

As fate would have it, I believe that I was the last journalist to interview Sumner Redstone, who diedon Aug. 11 at 97.

Bo Derek is addressing those questions about why she and John Corbett are not married.

Dade Hayes, Jill Goldsmith The reminders came often from Sumner Redstone, self-made architect of a vast media empire.“Viacom is me,” he once told Fortune magazine. “I’m Viacom.

RISK TAKERRedstone was born on May 27, 1923, into a Boston family that owned a chain of drive-in movie theatres. He graduated first in his class at Boston Latin High School, went through Harvard in three years and worked with an elite U.S.

Ted Johnson Senior EditorSumner Redstone had a long history of challenging the status quo — via litigation that often revealed questionable practices in the entertainment business and also laid bare more than a few of his personal squabbles.“When your life depends on it, you must wage war,” Redstone wrote in his 2001 memoir, “A Passion to Win,” in which he devoted many pages to explaining his legal battles. The mogul who died Aug.