Morning Wire: Vivendi's $50 Million secret, Times lets us in.......

And now the morning's worthy media news: Even on Sundays the Post learns, but still comes up with shitty headlines Following up the recent Tom Cruise United Artists news, the New York Post kept the momentum going with yet another headline, "Tommy's Gun" referencing the actor's old ass movie "Top Gun". Rupe's tabloid gets word that Tom and company may be getting some financial love from Washington Redskins owner and Cruise friend Dan Snyder to help revive the dusty United Artists. This Snyder guy seems like he will do anything to get his hands in the movie business, and Tom Cruise seems willing to hold them and walk him right through the door. $50 Billion offered for Vivendi stealth mode style The old boys at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company secretly made a $50 billion bid last month for Vivendi, the French entertainment and telecommunications company and it looks like Vivendi secretly turned them down. Private equity has a sack full of cash ($2 Trillion) and ready to drop some of it where it sees fit. Yeeeah! It's Times Select free week! No thanks to the folks at Phillips for paying The New York Times a shit a load of money for them to open up their "Times Select" section to us free all this week. The Times said that this is an effort to get more people to shell out cash every month to read the opinions of columnists and other stuff we could care less about. Note to The Times, if you give away free shit, of course we will take it. But that doesn't mean when you take back the free shit we will then turn around and pay for it. It's just not that serious. At least we don't think so. Should we though? -Shomari Hines