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...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...Lane £25, 320 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Stewart (a finalist in the inaugural FT book award in 2005 for DisneyWar) and Abrams tell a tale of sex, power and late-life obsession....
...Unscripted (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams makes a worthy bid for Paramount founder Sumner Redstone to be considered Logan-worthy....
...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) An extraordinary account of the real-life Succession saga that unfolded around...
...Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis Allen Lane £25/Norton $27 272/288 pages Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux Weidenfeld & Nicolson...
...Rick Allen, the Republican House member representing Augusta, introduced Walker at the bus tour stop in his district last week. “I feel an undercurrent out there,” Allen said....
...The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya, Penguin/Allen Lane £20, 368 pages David Bodanis is the author of ‘The Art of Fairness’ (Bridge Street Press/ Abrams...
...pages They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties, by Lisa Levenstein, Basic Books, RRP$30, 304 pages The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women, by Sharon Moalem, Allen...
...“It was a difficult year,” says the jointly written sleeve, noting the deaths of Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams and Geri Allen alongside the painter/sculptor Jack Whitten....
...A History of Judaism , by Martin Goodman, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 656 pages The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects from the Ashmolean Museum, by Rebecca Abrams, Ashmolean Museum, RRP£15, 232 pages Join...
...“We have to adapt,” said JJ Abrams at CinemaCon, to what he called the “age of piracy, digital technology and disruption”....
...Famous collectors include Tom Hanks, who seeks out Beatles photographs, Microsoft’s Paul Allen, who prefers Hendrix; Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, used to collect Bob Dylan images, according...
...It is a spirit that has been haunting the red carpet, too: Cate Blanchett caught global attention in August in Christopher Kane’s spider-web dress at the Paris premiere of the Woody Allen-directed Blue Jasmine...
...Here is Welles on Woody Allen: “I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.”...
...Likewise, music PA Phoebe Allen wears her mother’s 1980s pieces, such as hand-knitted Pat Roberts sweaters, because “it’s very Melanie Griffith in Working Girl....
...Drummer son Clark was a powerful presence, and alto saxophonist Simon Allen alternated passion and space....
...Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen years with Lee Alexander McQueen, by Anne Deniau, Abrams, RRP£45 This has been a year of Alexander McQueen books – at last count there were at least four of them...
...The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to The Catwalk, by Thierry-Maxime Loriot and Suzy Menkes, Abrams, RRP£125 Gaultier has successfully fused the worlds of pop culture and Parisian...
...Allen said online social networks were attracting the more determined predators....
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