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...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...
...(“Madonna of the Magnificat”, from the collection of the late Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, sold for $48.5mn with fees at Christie’s New York in November.)...
...The launch of singer Billie Eilish’s perfume in the UK last week might come as a surprise to those who believed celebrity fragrances to be dead....
...Billie Eilish also referred to their decision, a “dark day for women in the US”, as she said in her Friday headline set....
...Among those who jumped on this ascetic bandwagon was the “appalling self-publicist Jerome” in the late fourth and early fifth century, “whose personal ‘desert’ was his large library on the main road between...
...A self-described feminist, she nonetheless outraged progressives earlier in her career by defending Woody Allen against sexual abuse allegations, accepting a role as a transgender man and another that had...
...(In the other, the 84-year-old Allen presumably embraces TikTok while listening to Billie Eilish.)...
...Also a stranger to the poker face is trainee detective Billie (Tori Allen-Martin), whose eyes continually bulge in alarm. She’s about as hard to read as an emoji....
...Sun Valley media summit Investment bank Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley Conference will bring together some of the most influential figures in media....
...year when it was included on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label compilation of London jazz, We Out Here, was written by the band’s guitarist Oscar Jerome....
S&P 500 drops more than 20% below previous peak while Topix tumbles on Christmas Day
...NMC Health says Moelis, PwC and Allen & Overy have been appointed as independent financial adviser, operational adviser and legal adviser respectively with immediate effect....
...Having heard the testimony of Jackson’s victims, will I ever again experience the pure joy of “Billie Jean”? Right now, I can’t be sure....
...Additional reporting from Kate Allen in London...
...Sotheby’s boasts David Smith’s “Voltri-Bolton X” (1962, est $6m-$8m) among pieces from New York collectors Jerome Stern and his widow, Ellen, as well as works on paper from Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel...
...Besides its listed peers, Greenhill is competing against private firms such as Centerview, Qatalyst, Perella Weinberg, Allen and LionTree....
...He worked with the best: Mel Brooks, Woody Allen (as a man in love with a sheep in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex), Stanley Donen (The Little Prince)....
...Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, by Christopher de Hamel, Allen Lane, RRP£30, 640 pages John Banville is author of ‘The Blue Guitar’ (Viking) Photographs: Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen...
...“You’re the Pepsi generation,” sang Michael Jackson to the tune of “Billie Jean”, as a child clutching a can of the cola drink expressed astonishment to find he had moonwalked into the pop icon....
...Outside the Young Vic Theatre in London there are huge posters of Billie Piper....
...Every Monday night Woody Allen plays clarinet here in the Eddie Davis New Orleans Jazz Band....
...John Paul Rathbone is the FT’s Latin America editor Photographs: Jerome Sessini/Magnum; Brian Lawless/PA...
...In a small wing of the Finnish National Opera, film-maker Zaida Bergroth made her stage directing debut with a double bill of monodramas based on Edgar Allen Poe poems....
...Not so in Billie Holiday’s case....
...… Fiction in Translation by Ángel Gurría-Quintana The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, by Jérôme Ferrari, translated by Geoffrey Strachan, Maclehose Press, RRP£12.99 Winner of France’s Goncourt prize, Ferrari...
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