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...He has secured public endorsements from JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon, members of the Disney family, and prominent shareholders including Laurene Powell Jobs and Star Wars creator George Lucas....
...said Hugh Young, Asia-Pacific chair of UK asset manager Abrdn. “But there are certainly some large institutional investors out there who have gone ex-China.”...
..., Russia has long been an Isis target, and this “markedly increased after its military intervention in Syria in 2015, its subsequent involvement across Africa, and its relations with the Taliban”, said Lucas...
...There are ball-tossing games, show-and-tells, listening exercises and a lot of love for Richard Curtis romcoms (“Sometimes it takes two people to understand Hugh Grant,” says teacher Marjan, inviting a student...
...inside story of the rise and fall of independent cinema in the 1970s — a grand narrative whose main characters include Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas...
...“The way I see it, this is more of a personal investment of the Pinault family than anything related to Kering or the luxury business,” said Luca Solca, luxury analyst at Bernstein....
...Read the full report and more of the interview with Hugh MacArthur....
...Trump, who is likely to be the Republican presidential candidate in 2024, has sued Orbis Business Intelligence over a dossier compiled by its co-founder, the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele....
...Immortal Thoughts: Late Style in a Time of Plague by Christopher Neve (Thames & Hudson) During the pandemic Neve, a painter in his 80s, returned alone to his rural childhood home and wrote about ageing...
...and Clearing (€48,000); embracing wooden skeletons in an armoire by Hugh Hayden at Lisson (“Us”, 2023, $170,000)....
...“Cognac is dying a very slow death in New York right now,” said Christopher Collins, director of events at nightclubs Taj and Katra Lounge. “Tequila has taken over the whole hip hop scene.”...
...The decision was deeply unpopular with Hollywood’s creative community, with star director Christopher Nolan splitting with Warner after nearly 20 years as a result....
...Other significant individual shareholders at Disney include Jobs’s widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Lucasfilm’s George Lucas. Disney hopes they will vote against Peltz’s move to gain a board seat....
...being too expensive, the problem, argues Christophers, is that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable....
...His targets ranged from the Rubens House in Antwerp to a Sotheby’s pre-sale view at a 15th-century castle in Baden-Baden (where he snatched a portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder)....
...Bernstein luxury analyst Luca Solca describes the new price points as “punchy”. “Burberry is trying to price up to look as if it is in the premier league,” he says....
...At Christopher Farr, the new Hodgkin pieces were also “quite a process”, says co-owner Matthew Bourne....
...This is part of Bob Iger's big mission, how to revive some of its great franchises, from Pixar to Marvel to Lucas. The creative content has to get better....
...Made Up Stories has released 15 films and TV shows, including The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, which was HBO’s most watched series of 2020, and Nine Perfect Strangers, starring Kidman...
...The response on social media was “mixed”, according to Bernstein analyst Luca Solca. Department-store buyers were more upbeat, speaking warmly of the bags, outerwear and menswear....
...Christopher Nolan had clearly had enough....
...“I think relatively little of what has been announced here,” said CLSA analyst Christopher Richter....
...He also said the transition would be less disruptive in commercial terms than the handover from Christopher Bailey to Tisci....
...He is paired with the strongly sung Leporello of Christopher Maltman, a Don Giovanni of note in this production a few years ago, but now playing his servant as a sturdy, wry, down-to-earth fellow....
...Boris Johnson’s administration is due to release the letter from Lord Christopher Geidt explaining why he quit as ethics adviser to the prime minister....
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