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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....
...“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....
...“Everything else was left in place,” says Karmely, who notes that most of the home’s furniture is from George Smith and B&B Italia – accented by antique carpets from India and Iran including a Chinese art...
...“My spite soccer team is THRIVING,” they texted me, with “so many players they now have A and B teams.”...
...In January, B’Tselem, flagship of the mostly sunken Israeli peace camp, said that threshold had already been crossed....
...“It’s only when you’ve sold Doris Lessing to a 60-year-old black man or a crime novel to a 19-year-old girl that you know readers are capable of so much more.”...
...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....
...One evening this year, at a bar in Tokyo, I saw a drag queen insert environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg’s “How dare you” speech into her lip-sync performance of Doris Day’s “Qué Será, Será”....
...david.gardner@ft.com...
...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....
...Chowdry's argument is essentially that "Under Ed Gardner's watch GE has lost 64 per cent of Stock Value" and "his skills and motivations are not clear"....
...Healthy sales were reported, including a sellout booth of paintings by Alex Gardner, courtesy of New York’s Lower East Side gallery The Hole, where works ranged from $15,000-$28,000....
...US B-52 bombers, deployed from Louisiana to Qatar last week, have this week been flying what have been described as “deterrence missions” across the Gulf region....
...FT’s Lombard thinks its plan warrants a B+: “[It] would be for the common good.”...
...David Gardner of the FT warned that building up institutions to support the new Saudi Arabia would be vital....
...A R B Linderman Charlottesville, VA, US...
...Biological life (System B) is built on a completely different set of mechanisms: RNA, DNA, gene regulation, viral-bacterial interplay and ecosystem behaviour, which are in constant flux....
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