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...Take this 1954 letter, from the late Kirk Douglas, to director George Cukor: “May I please work for you . . . please? I’ll learn to sing, dance, roller skate, any damn thing you want.”...
...(Economist) Kirk Douglas, Hollywood actor, 1916-2020 With gritted teeth, an adamantine jaw and the voice of a meat grinder, Kirk Douglas, who has died at the age of 103, personified masculinity for a postwar...
...It was the late 1990s, and Florida’s roller-coaster housing market was on a sharp upswing....
...Who Douglas Elliman Real Estate, tel +1 (718) 856 3572 Via Filippo Ferrari, Reggio Emilia, Italy, €7.4m Where In central Reggio Emilia in northern Italy....
...In this superfuture I feel like I’m clamped into a temporal roller coaster and, at the crest of the first hill, I can see that my roller coaster actually runs off far into the horizon. Wait!...
...Among Malibu’s second-home owners are many of LA’s celebrities and high rollers; agents confess that locals are an insular, even snooty, lot....
...Douglas Coupland is artist in residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris....
...“Lower Manhattan is getting a facelift,” says Frances Katzen, of agents Douglas Elliman Real Estate. And it’s an expensive one....
...Operating profit, excluding £8.9m ($13m) made from high rollers, fell 3 per cent. Over-the-counter net revenues declined 11 per cent, and average stakes fell 1.1 per cent....
...Real estate has been a roller coaster ride over the past three years of bust and boom for investors who had hoped that bricks and mortar would be less volatile than more liquid asset classes (PDF of top...
...He worked for and with Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, Alec Douglas-Home and Roy Jenkins, among many others....
...First, the interval-less evening, which has a new book by Douglas Carter Beane but retains the ELO-inspired original songs, has the gift of modesty....
...Nevertheless, the result is a gripping tale of the roller-coaster ride from Lazard’s creation in the 1840s, when young Jewish immigrant brothers opened a cotton-trading company in New Orleans, to its 1980s...
...Oakdene, on a price/earnings ratio of 3, looks a steadier bet than some of Mr Wray's former roller-coaster rides, such as Knutsford....
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