No Beverly hicks 90210. (On the Line).New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mineworkers stood in the rain outside of Viacom's shareholder meeting on May 21 to try to convine CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. to withdraw its proposed reality show The Real Beverly Hillbillies. (Viacom is CBS's parent company.) CBS has proposed to move a rural family to Beverly Hills, give them money, cars, and a big house, and to film it all for broadcast. United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers of America (UMW), international labor union formed (1890) by the amalgamation of the National Progressive Union (organized 1888) and the mine locals under the Knights of Labor. It is an industrial union, including all workers in the coal industry. President Cecil Roberts met briefly with Viacom's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Mel Karmazin. "I told him I know a better show than The Real Beverly Hillbillies," Roberts told The Washington Post. "I call it Executive Survival. We'll take someone like him and put him in a thirty-inch coal shaft and see how he works down there. I told him I'll watch it every night." |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion