EditorialSumner Redstone, then chairman of Viacom, Inc., in a Blockbuster store in Manhattan in 1998. Redstone, the billionaire entrepreneur who saw business as combat and his advancing years as no obstacle in building a media empire that encompassed CBS and Viacom, died on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. He was 97. (Marilynn K. Yee/New York Times Photo)
EditorialThen Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone on Jan. 18, 1996. Redstone, the billionaire entrepreneur who saw business as combat and his advancing years as no obstacle in building a media empire that encompassed CBS and Viacom, died on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. He
EditorialFrom top to bottom, at center: Otto Nhlapo and Katleho Lekhula in “Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro,” by the choreographer Gregory Maqoma, at the Joyce Theater in New York, Jan. 15, 2020. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)