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...Mercuriadis used to manage Beyoncé and Elton John and is often pictured pouting with pop stars....
...Like Spurlock’s film, it offers disturbing viewing, mostly in its investigations into sugar as a key ingredient of supposedly “low-fat” meals....
...At Time Warner’s most recent quarterly earnings, John Martin, CEO of Turner Broadcasting, Time Warner’s television unit, told an investor call that CNN’s profits had fallen....
...Expanding the category to “me-movies” more generally, we could include Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock and Bill Maher (the forthcoming Religulous) – feature documentarists and commentator-satirists becoming...
...Morgan Spurlock, star of Super Size Me… Morgan Spurlock, star of Super Size Me, was not kidding....
...Although Trevor Bish Jones, head of Woolworths, Alan Giles, at HMV, and John King at Matalan were not there to defend themselves, David Adams, House of Fraser’s finance director, tried valiantly to put a...
...John Rishton, BA’s chief financial officer, argues that the large incumbent network carriers still offer a much more convincing product to business travellers. than the startups....
...The problem is the obesity scare, incarnated recently in Morgan Spurlock, star of Super Size Me....
...Spurlock is also at the cutting edge of the polementary wave, whose most famed exponent is Michael Moore....
...john.lloyd@ft.com...
...Created in the social idiom of the concerned 1930s, documentaries long laboured under the shadow of propagandists such as the Canadian John Grierson and the Dutch Stalinist Joris Ivens....
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