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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...
...Andrew Gardner, chair of Ineos Grangemouth, said that the Labour opposition’s plans to stop new exploration licences in the North Sea if it wins power could increase reliance on imports....
...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...
...The deal structure means Pitt and his partners Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, who run Plan B on a daily basis, are incentivised to remain with the group since they will share in any value creation....
...Uncovered: Florence B Price Catalyst Quartet (Azica) The time has surely come to discover the wonderfully enriching string quartets of Florence Price, the African-American composer who died in 1953 after...
...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....
...The best-known name on the schedule was probably Thom Browne, purveyor of grey shorts suits and four-stripe socks to celebrities including Cardi B and Kristen Stewart....
...“Children are demanding,” the late E B White, author of such classics as Charlotte’s Web, told The Paris Review in 1969....
...There has been a steady stream of them and the most recent pair — Bach’s B Minor Mass and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius —predictably drew full houses....
...We think that this (a) would be a smart thing for the Fed to do and (b) it would come as a shock, given how the market is positioned today....
...Dance music was represented by a huge cast of DJs, from Carl Cox to Calvin Harris....
...Its Series B fundraising round in January this year, led by Lone Pine Capital, climbed to $240mn....
...In January, B’Tselem, flagship of the mostly sunken Israeli peace camp, said that threshold had already been crossed....
...Vaquera are fantasists in the vein of American greats such as Cecil B DeMille rather than Tommy Hilfiger....
...Umit Benan Founder, Umit Benan and B+ A fun, freewheeling energy crackles through Umit Benan’s ensembles. He also knows how to dress sexily, a rare feat for men....
...preceding kingdoms, the House of Saud’s legitimacy rested on its compact with the House of Ibn Abdul Wahhab, an 18th-century preacher Rundell describes as an Arabian Martin Luther with a touch of John Calvin...
...Not a whit deterred, Riyadh followed up by announcing an increase in crude output from 9.7m barrels a day to 12.3m b/d....
...Here the gun was a Colt or a Smith & Wesson, the girl was a femme fatale; Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Lizabeth Scott, Susan Hayward or one of their ilk....
...“If you were anything over a B-cup, none of the soft bras at that time worked,” she says....
...“It’s interesting that they’ve chosen to do this at the height of the market,” said Susan Anderson, US retail analyst at B Riley FBR in Virginia....
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...In 1986, when his business was just 18 months old, Tommy Hilfiger launched a billboard campaign proclaiming himself as the next Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is my Oral B Pro 5000 electric toothbrush. I use it twice a day and it’s 50 times better than any other. £84.98; boots.com....
...(In case you have forgotten your history, these were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon B Johnson.)...
...Standard & Poor’s, the credit agency, cast L Brands with a double B minus credit outlook as of August 15, indicating its bonds were at “junk” level, and there was a 50 per cent chance the rating would be...
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