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Several years after his close-call survival of the hotel fire, Redstone could be heard occasionally brooding over the meaning of a career that had left him atop a heap of movie theaters. But with one of the world's largest media companies within his reach, Redstone seems to have banished his existential anxieties. The fire, he says, only scarred him physically. "I never felt bad," he explains. "I've had no nightmares. I think of it only at happy moments, like when I'm hitting the tennis ball."