2 posts and columns on Dr. Evil

BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn's Latest Letter to Yahoo (The Crazy Eddie Edition)

in News on June 4, 2008 at 4:19 pm PT

Break out the sedatives, because Carl Icahn is getting mighty tetchy with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors of the troubled Internet company! In yet another letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock, the ever-grumpier billionaire investor, who is waging a proxy fight against Yahoo and seeking to oust Yang and crew, he stepped up the volume to Crazy Eddie levels. It’s almost too juicy to require translation, as the veins practically pop out in Icahn’s letter from all the agita he seems to be experiencing over this botched takeover.
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Viacom's Dr. and Scott Evil!

in News on August 10, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

One billion dollars! That’s what Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has asked for in the media giant’s legal war over copyright infringement with search behemoth Google. So leave it to those clever minxes at Google to turn the whole thing into a new version of “Austin Powers,” casting Dauman as Dr. Evil and his son of [...]