Hints and tips:
...‘Orwellian doublethink’: When historians look back at Wall Street’s response to climate change in the 2020s, they will see much that looks deeply unwise, writes Pilita Clark....
...And finally, a panel — and podcast — tip from Damon Klotz, Culture Amp’s director of talent and analyst relations and host of its Culture First podcast: “In a prep call/email, I ask them this question ....
...The one where Chandler Bing’s impenetrable job defined a generation: My favourite article of the week....
...For Raymond Chandler, advertising agencies were the acme of the “waste of human intelligence”. But the century-old tradition may have died with Weldon....
...I’m half expecting to see Matt Damon walk out of here because it really looks like a Martian landscape....
...The Promiseby Damon Galgut, read by Peter Noble, Penguin Audio, 9hr 37mins Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel tracks an Afrikaner family over decades, mercilessly homing in on the cracks in post-apartheid...
...Pilita Clark: Is working from home better for the planet, asks our business columnist. As with so many aspects of climate change, she says, the situation is more complicated than it seems....
...Gorillaz began in 1998 as an outlet for Damon Albarn to experiment with hip-hop and funk, styles of music that didn’t fit with his band Blur....
...Mr Wind recently listed a 1960 Mark 1A Enicar Sherpa Graph, sometimes nicknamed a Jim Clark, for $9,800....
...Like a 15-rated update of Larry Clark’s notorious indie hit Kids, it stars Sunny Suljic as a young teen who is embraced by a gang of skaters....
...Damon Stanwell-Smith, the association’s executive director, says the group can handle the projected increase of 20,000 ship-borne visitors....
...Wanda’s planned $1bn purchase of Dick Clark Productions, the company that produces the Golden Globes awards show, was also pulled....
...Long reads of the week Pilita Clark — Inside Antarctica: the continent whose fate will affect millions There is also a terrific video that goes with the story....
...The movie stars Matt Damon as an English mercenary in medieval China and was panned by critics, but it has nonetheless turned a modest profit....
...(Matt Damon brought Lonergan the original idea for him to screenwrite, planning to star and direct himself.)...
...The Great Wall, Legendary’s clunky effort to bridge the gap with a monster action film set in the Song dynasty starring Matt Damon, did poorly at the US box office in February....
...Mr Wang’s Dalian Wanda, for example, was prevented by regulators from buying Dick Clark Productions, a US TV production company, for $1bn, while other deals have also fallen apart....
...There has been a sense of lack of strategy to what they’re doing,” said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China, a technology consultancy. “Fast cars and entertainment — it’s a tough mix.”...
...As I look left and right, neighbouring plane seats have become suede cinema seats, and soon Matt Damon appears on the screen in front of me....
...And Matt Damon, the actor, has tipped a bucket of toilet water over his head to bring attention to it....
...Seb Morton-Clark is a video producer-reporter at the FT. To comment on this article please post below, or email magazineletters@ft.com...
...Mark Shapiro, the former chief executive of Dick Clark Productions, has been bought in as chief content officer to squeeze new revenue from IMG’s businesses....
...With Coxon playing a guest spot at his Blur colleague Damon Albarn’s Latitude Festival show last month, fans might hope for the favour to be returned at the Roundhouse....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney bsthydepark.com … Latitude Festival, July 17-20, Henham Park, Southwold Two Door Cinema Club, Damon Albarn and the Black Keys headline this year’s Latitude on the Suffolk coast....
...“We are not the class society of Britain,” Helen Clark, the former Labour prime minister of New Zealand, said in 2000 as she got rid of the country’s knighthoods and damehoods....
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