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...Which 1989 Gus Van Sant film stars Matt Dillon as Bob Hughes and William S Burroughs as a priest?...
...Outside voices of some prominent journalists — The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, Barbarians at the Gate author Bryan Burrough, The Wall Street Journal’s Cara Lombardo and the FT’s Rana Foroohar — confirm...
...I used to work out of his studio and one time I was going to get a coffee and he saw me and said, “Adam you can’t dress like this – it is terrible.” I felt that was a badge of honour....
...One image shows a young Medalla at a party, William Burroughs on one side, Francis Bacon on the other....
...Unlike the soldier-scientist-philosopher Heston portrays in the cult film, or Edgar Rice Burrough’s heroes in The Chessmen of Mars (part of the author’s John Carter series), where the sport is played as...
...British duo Robert Cannan and Ross Adam’s terrific film, The Lovers and the Despot, meanwhile, pursue a very different line of artistic liberty....
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...Moreau borrows boffins from the works of HG Wells, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and even finds room for Conan Doyle’s own hero, Professor Challenger, too....
...Jordan Burroughs became the US’s first Olympic wrestling champion of London 2012. Burroughs defeated Iran’s Sadegh Goudarzi in the 74kg freestyle event....
...a work written more than 200 years earlier: the foundation stone of free-market economics, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations....
...The Escape By Adam Thirlwell Cape £12.99, 336 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 Every writer is a reader....
...Newby Hall, an 18th-century house designed by Scottish architect Robert Adam, was targeted three times and, during the first and worst of the raids, in the early hours of June 29, an irreplaceable Chippendale...
...The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith’s influential economic treatise, published in 1776, was voted the winner by a wide margin, ahead of Barbarians at the Gate , the 1990 account by Bryan Burrough and John...
...It was joined by Barbarians at the Gate, by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, still, more than 15 years since its publication, the benchmark for business story-telling....
...of Nations, by Adam Smith To read our business experts’ views in full and to vote for – or comment on – the best business book ever, go to www.ft.com/bookaward...
...But Wolfe’s lawyer, Adam Duthie of Bevan Brittan, successfully appealed to the Takeover Panel for a waiver....
...Jeff Immelt, chairman and chief executive, General Electric • Barbarians at the Gate, by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar....
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