Seagram has merged with Vivendi and Canal Plus to create the world's second biggest media group.
And the Seagram Building undulates almost 20ft into the air from a movie reel-like base.
Bronfman says that when he sold Seagram, Messier promised to forgo taking on more debt.
Don't miss Mark Rothko's nine haunting "Seagram Murals", collected in one atmospherically lit room.
Nor will most directors put up with anything like the audacity of former Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Sr.
The performance of the non-carbonated drinks unit was also boosted by the purchase of the Seagram line of drink mixers.
However, regulators may still have some grounds for concern, for instance over Pernod's ownership of both Beefeater and Seagram gin.
Among Raniere's acolytes were Sara and Clare Bronfman, daughters of Seagram billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr. and half-sisters of Edgar Bronfman Jr.
The value of a share in Viacom or Seagram is in part determined by the value of that particular long-shot call option.
Richard Marker: When I first became EVP of the Bronfman Foundation of the Seagram Company, I approached colleagues for mentoring and advice.
All three, he maintains, would fit better with Allied than Seagram would.
If nothing else, the Latin connection gives Bronfman occasion to practice his minimal Spanish--which could come in handy should the Seagram-Vivendi merger grow rocky.
So the "Seagram" sculpture stands one block north of its namesake, cleverly commenting on the modernist building that houses the celebrated Four Seasons restaurant.
If nothing else, the Latin connection gives Bronfman occasion to practice his (minimal) Spanish--which could come in handy should the Seagram-Vivendi merger become rocky.
Cooke, executive vice president for corporate affairs, to a meeting hosted by another major Hollywood company, Universal Studios, a subsidiary of The Seagram Co.
In his most famous structure, the 1958 Seagram building (for which the ever-industrious Philip Johnson did the interior spaces), Mies' lyricism is given epic form.
The French multinational Pernod Ricard helped create Dragon Seal in 1987, for example, and Seagram's and Remy Martin have also been involved in joint ventures.
Mr Diller took Seagram's television assets, merged them with his own, and gave Seagram 45%, with a promise eventually to give back the whole caboodle.
Will it be allowed to own both Beefeater and Seagram's gin?
ECONOMIST: Does it make sense for Pernod Ricard to buy Allied Domecq?
Suitors could include the big international spirits companies, such as Diageo or Allied Domecq, which are presently preoccupied by the bidding to buy Seagram's liquor business.
The revitalised Allied is now in a strong position to take part in a fresh round of consolidation, which the Seagram deal seems sure to trigger.
Mr Bowman passed on a bid for the Seagram assets, even though analysts expected Allied to fall irretrievably behind Diageo if it failed to buy them.
Now Mr Bronfman, the former head of Seagram, is one of the remaining bidders - but he is unlikely to be able to raise the cash required.
"Stephen's been very happy doing what he's doing and doesn't want to be the king, " says his father, Charles, who was cochairman of Seagram from 1986 to 2000.
What came to be known as the "Bauhaus diaspora" can readily be seen in New York City, where Mies designed the Seagram building and Breuer the Whitney Museum.
Seagram's (52, VO) movie operations have stopped losing money, liquor is rebounding worldwide and the stock is a cheap play on music sales at 10 times operating income.
In fact, Seagram boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. has already done Vivendi the favor of quietly wrapping up the goodwill accounting for his 1998 purchase of music giant PolyGram N.
On a sun-sweet summer day Stephen Bronfman, the 42-year-old grandson of Seagram's founder, Samuel Bronfman, relaxes on a porch at Cap Nord, his salmon camp on Quebec's remote north shore.
Vivendi's shares have fallen 7% since the news leaked out, Seagram's stock trades at 26% below the offering price, and reporters stumble over themselves to chortle at Vivendi's star-crossed ambitions.
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