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...BNP Paribas has hired Lewis Burnett as co-head of corporate broking. Before joining BNP, he was at Credit Suisse. Before that he was a City lawyer....
...Publicis, which also owns heavyweight ad firms Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett, is looking for ways to boost growth after its much-touted $35bn mega-merger with US rival Omnicom broke down in 2014....
...I think it has been left alone so long — that it has grown all into a lovely tangle,” says Mary Lennox in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel, The Secret Garden....
...On an altogether different scale, Paramount Pictures’ epic Noah starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson, was produced with a $130m budget and has so far made almost $250m in worldwide box-office...
...Two Marias – Aviles, looking more like Mr Clean in drag with his shiny bald pate, blue dress and white apron, and Jennifer Nugent, similarly dressed – lark around in the opening “Sound of Music” number....
...Burnett and Alison, the two ex gratia members, wrote a source play, not a novel. But what a play. Or what a source....
...How many could place it as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s inspiration for The Secret Garden ? Her other examples range from Florida to Beijing and I found myself enjoying the global journey....
...Jennifer Uglow, biographer and editorial director, Chatto and Windus, the publisher....
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