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...In another piece, Wilder considers the profligate Hollywood career of Erich von Stroheim, a visionary director of silent films, whom Wilder later cast as the major-domo in his 1950 film Sunset Boulevard....
...(Billy Nauman) ‘Could someone please call Brussels?’...
...The issue is, there’s a lack of projects,” Ms von Friedeburg told Moral Money....
...(Billy Nauman) $5tn investor group shows mettle with decarbonisation goals Thirty of the world’s largest investors have unveiled details of how they intend to strip damaging carbon emissions from their...
...(Billy Nauman) The FT is offering a free 30-day trial to Moral Money, which includes access to FT.com....
...Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has also proposed that Brussels tap revenues from the EU’s carbon market, which could be expanded....
...Billy Nauman will speak and moderate panels at the IESE Business School’s Doing Good Doing Well conference being held in Barcelona on March 3....
...(Billy Nauman) Oil shock and the threat to clean energy Banks and investors are scrambling to understand how rock-bottom oil and gas prices will affect renewable energy development....
...(Billy Nauman) Terra Firma mea culpa Private equity bosses were known as barbarians long before this era’s debate about profits and purpose....
...(FT) Further reading Davos 2020: Von der Leyen warns China to price carbon or face tax (FT) Can you swallow the idea of lab-grown meat?...
...(Billy Nauman) Shareholder engagement blunted by SEC proxy action In filming, it is called the “last look”....
...(Billy Nauman) Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...Singers pale at the central role of declining writer Gustav von Aschenbach. On stage for two and a half hours, he has to memorise reams of text....
...I am struck by works by Xiomara De Oliver, Patricia Leite, Billy Childish and Aranda\Lasch. But I don’t see every room....
...“Some misconceptions still exist,” admits Didier von Daeniken, global head of private banking and wealth management at Standard Chartered. Philanthropists (and eager bankers) are keen to correct this....
...Brussels’ climate law comes under attack from activists Wednesday’s Moral Money was published just as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen debuted a draft climate law....
...As the network’s head of news Corey Ellison (Billy Crudup) explains through his scheming rictus grin: “We need entertainment, not journalism.”...
...In April, a white cast for Porgy and Bess was asked to claim it identified as African-American in defiance of the Gershwin Estate; a run of Elton John’s Billy Elliot musical was cancelled last summer following...
...These days his CV includes the complete $745m Hobbit trilogy and the award-winning TV drama Fargo, alongside Billy Bob Thornton....
...He was accepted and got a complete grounding in cinema, studying Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, Josef von Sternberg “and lots of Billy Wilder”....
...Don’t expect good PC behaviour from von Trier....
...He played Raskolnikov in Josef von Sternberg’s Crime and Punishment (1935). He was a young pianist fleeing an animated severed hand in the horror mini-classic The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)....
...“To promote and protect fashion is the CFDA motto,” Diane von Furstenberg, president of the CFDA, told the audience....
...Billy Reid, Patrik Ervell and Simon Spurr were nominated for Menswear Designer of the Year, whilst nods for Accessory Designer of the Year went to Alexander Wang, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez once...
...It’s the pictures that got small,” declares former silent movie goddess Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s 1950 film and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 stage musical....
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