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...His perky new movie Air is a period piece, set in that same year, with Matt Damon and Viola Davis among the stars. It tells the origin story of the Nike Air Jordan....
...The film — with a star-studded cast that includes Affleck himself alongside Matt Damon, Chris Tucker, Jason Bateman and Viola Davis — depicts how the renegade spirit of the company and its passionate employees...
...The film tackles these issues, albeit lightly (unlike previous biopics and documentaries it was signed off by Houston’s family and produced by Clive Davis, the founder and president of her label Arista Records...
...As a young man, Benson became an established figure on the jazz circuit, releasing his own albums and playing sessions for stars such as Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard....
...Rawlings’ widow Veronica (Viola Davis) is left to pick up the pieces, including the $3m lost in the siege that is owed to a local crime boss....
...“Lauren, Katharine, Lana, too/Bette Davis, we love you,” as Madge intoned, while her dancers freeze-framed around her....
...• Sir Damon Buffini, a senior figure in the UK’s private equity industry, is returning to Schroders to take on a non-executive director role at the $577bn UK-listed asset manager....
...Law firm Davis Polk has elected eight new partners. Read about it here....
...Matt Damon stars as botanist and astronaut Mark Watney, who is left for dead on the red planet during a meteor storm that disables his communications system....
...In a nightclub scene in the 1999 film The Talented Mr Ripley, Matt Damon’s Ripley performs a version, closely emulating Chet Baker’s singing style to conjure a tangible sense of the late 1950s....
...The brash and brassy British trumpeter Damon Brown has developed an original voice in a well-established idiom: the blues-inflected modernism that dominated late-1950s small-group jazz....
...I had seen Damon working with musicians in Mali, and he completely got it. I thought they should meet. To the outside world it may look like colliding elements....
...There could be no more accomplished guide to it than Andrew Davis, who conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with an excellent line-up of soloists....
...“Miles Davis was the beginning of modern jazz. Everything started there – and stopped too, because it became more mathematical than musical.”...
...Goldman Sachs banker Richard Campbell-Breedon was chatting with private equity pin-up boy Damon Buffini from Permira, until the latter had to take a conference call....
...Starring George Clooney and Matt Damon doing their bit for the Hollywood Left, it makes the lampooning of that cadre in Team America seem hilariously prescient....
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