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...The Crown Jewels Garrick Theatre, London Something went wrong. That’s true of the audacious heist on which the summer comedy The Crown Jewels is based. Unfortunately it’s also true of the show....
...The ship has been dubbed a “crown jewel” by state news agency Xinhua. “The ability to build such ships embodies a country’s industrial strength,” Xinhua added....
...We follow Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), a formerly light-fingered London urchin who has grown up to become a steady-handed surgeon in 1850s Australia....
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...For Tom Ford creative director Peter Hawkings, polo conjures visions of Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair. “That’s what I think of when I think of polo, it is such an elegant sport....
...Investors and analysts are also questioning whether the company should sell off some of its “crown jewel” assets, such as streaming service Hulu or sports network ESPN....
...But in recent years Murdoch broke up his empire, splitting 21st Century Fox and selling many of its crown jewels to Disney for $71bn....
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...Vivendi, which is controlled by Bolloré, has “been fighting this battle because the asset that is the jewel of the company is the network....
...So far it is peppered with puzzling little jewels, like Dalio’s habit for eating Scotch tape (posh Sellotape) at his desk. I mean, what? As my teenage kids might say, this is a sticky one....
...Website; Directions— Katarina Kostic, advertising, London The Siam, Bangkok A 38-room jewel in a historic part of Bangkok....
...not least on the same street as the Rosewood, where he also designed the facades of the palaces at numbers seven and 12, as well as some of the staterooms in the Residenz (the former royal palace), its jewel...
...In the 38 guest rooms and ground-level meeting room and lounge, cosy spaces are made to seem more voluminous with light timber floors, simple joinery painted white or in jewel tones, and rosy-neutral plaster...
...The annual Schwetzingen SWR music festival in the German town’s jewel-like 18th-century Schlosstheater pairs world premieres with forgotten treasures....
...At Fortnum & Mason’s smart new cocktail bar, 3’6, rum highballs are topped with jewel-coloured violas, tiny velvety flowers with a subtle taste of mint; at Lyaness and the Mandarin Oriental’s Aubrey bar...
...UBS executives see Credit Suisse’s domestic business as its “jewel in the crown” and would prefer to keep it intact....
...In an effort to recoup part of its debt, Lloyds has seized control of one of their crown jewels, the Telegraph Media Group, and put it up for sale....
...Today, it’s a jewel in LVMH’s crown. Dentons demerges from China Perhaps no global law firm was more invested in China than Dentons....
...SoftBank has also moved to sell nearly all of its stake in Alibaba, long considered its crown jewel, in an effort to raise cash....
...Apollo has built or acquired more than a dozen platforms to originate loans, including the former securitised products unit of Credit Suisse, once a crown jewel of the Swiss bank....
...Thomas Chauvet, analyst at Citigroup, said that it made “perfect sense to internalise the beauty business, as [Kering] has done in eyewear in the last seven years”....
...In Vienna, the alchemist jeweller Thomas Hauser of Atelier Allure spent a year exploring how to master Niellium, a tough, precious alloy that is mystically black....
...She used to watch her mother, an interior designer, getting ready for “parties and galas in her gowns and jewels”....
...“They thought it was important to have a female perspective when designing the jewels aimed at women,” says Karachi, her tone laced with good-humoured irony, in an interview at Cartier’s Paris headquarters...
...Run the Jewels was a given after the success of [our last collaboration] ‘Ooh La La’ . . . and I had to get a Nas record. This EP is a celebration of hip-hop history....
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