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...While evidently trying to follow Duck Soup’s recipe — and borrowing from the likes of Dr Strangelove, Woody Allen’s Bananas and Armando Iannucci’s Veep — the six-part series dishes out a tepid stew of undercooked...
...asked Allen of a faux Victoria’s Secret bag, before recoiling from the smell....
...For the most part, Ford is swept up in a gushing stream of kind words — “charisma”, “courage” and “commitment” — proffered by co-stars (Karen Allen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ke Huy Quan), filmmakers (Steven...
...A group of lawyers, judges and ex-officials — including Ty Cobb, former special counsel to the Trump administration; Bill Kristol, chief of staff to former vice-president Dan Quayle; and Philip Allen Lacovara...
...Haleon has hired Dawn Allen as chief financial officer beginning in October. She previously worked for Tate & Lyle and Mars....
...With this new source of cash, head chef Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) and his team set about transforming their greasy sandwich joint into a slick high-end restaurant....
...How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Macmillan/Currency) From the Sydney Opera House to the UK’s HS2 rail line, “megaprojects...
...His performance as the irascible and increasingly sidelined restaurant manager Richie (loud-mouthed foil to Jeremy Allen White’s terse chef Carmy) has deservedly been hailed as one of the highlights of a...
...Adapted from a bestselling 2019 novel by its author Taffy Brodesser-Akner, this is a tale revolving around the cerebral, oversexed, emotionally undeveloped man prevalent in the work of Woody Allen, Philip...
...Allen & Overy thinks it can do one better....
...What was the FT-friendly name that Third Point’s Dan Loeb used when he was a hardcore message board poster? 8....
...Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner draw on the former’s comprehensive studies of the fate of megaprojects — most of which run over time and over budget — in How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind...
...It follows Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), a world-renowned gourmet chef who returns to Chicago to take over his brother’s diner after the latter dies of suicide....
...(DD readers may remember Disney’s quarrel with activist Dan Loeb over ESPN.)...
...How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (Macmillan/Currency) Stories of gigantic and...
...Joining Stirling’s effort to demonstrate his value are the serious-minded Jock Lewes (Alfie Allen) and Paddy Mayne (Jack O’Connell), an agent of chaos with a poet’s heart....
...Bent Flyvbjerg is the “megaproject” expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done (Macmillan/Currency), with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera...
...Speaking of which, chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) desperately needs to find some way of coping with the demands of running his own restaurant....
...Dan McCrum, man off the TV What sticks in the mind this year are a trio of stories about men creating worlds....
...It is possible Cohen’s testimony could be bolstered by that of Allen Weisselberg, the former longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization....
...These include Willem de Kooning’s “Collage” (1950), with the top estimate of $18mn-$25mn, and Pablo Picasso’s “Femme dans un fauteuil” (1927, est $15mn-$20mn)....
...Schwarzenegger notes that popular actors of the 1970s – Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen – were not big men. Nobody wanted to cast a man like him. “People were turning me down,” he recalls....
...Then again, the famous debate in Woody Allen’s Manhattan comes to mind. Can trenchant satire ever compete with bricks and bats in a fight for a just cause?...
...It had been more than 40 years since Anne Marie Allen lived and worked at Ballyglunin Park, but she still took the servants’ driveway up to the house....
...Dan Prieto, a partner at Jones Day, which acts as legal counsel for LTL, said the ruling would not prevent companies from pursuing divisional mergers or a restructuring prior to making a bankruptcy filing...
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