'Sumner' In The City
And No Vacation (Or Retirement) In Sight

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Remember that cheesy CNN Money article we made fun of told you about last week? The one that was over-the-top effusive, and this-close to saying "I am madly in love with Les Moonves and want to have, like, 10,000 of his babies" and, um, conservatively titled "Everybody Loves Les?"

Well, we just found another person who really loves Les! It's mogul (and consummate family man) Sumner Redstone, an otherwise grumpy old miser who was nonetheless dancing on the ceiling during the conference call announcing CBS' second-quarter results.

A giddy Sumner Redstone, CBS’s chairman, gushed about the performance of CBS and raved about the company’s CEO Leslie Moonves. Redstone called Moonves “the best executive in the media industry” and raved about the “smart strategic moves” that CBS made to “position itself in the digital landscape,” referring to several notable acquisitions as well as the establishment of an online network to syndicate CBS content.

Redstone then celebrated CBS' incredible second-quarter gains by toasting to Moonves' performance, raising a glass for continued success, and trying to get his daughter (and presumed successor) forcibly evicted from the boards of both CBS and Viacom because he's a crazy, megalomaniacal control freak.

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