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...In 2006’s A Good Year, Russell Crowe turns down a coveted role in finance in the City of London to embrace the vigneron life (and a glowing Marion Cotillard) — the film bombed at the box office....
...With 2018’s Green Book, he hit on an Oscar-winning formula in which a working-class white guy learns to question his assumptions about x while on a road trip through y, in period setting z....
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both finished at their highest levels since August 2022. Read more on the possible compromise. 3....
...(His mother, Judy Ridenhour, ran a community theatre company whose attendees included a young Eddie Murphy.)...
...The direct forebear of the studio’s likeable new deafener was 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, the film snob’s Marvel movie, beloved by fans and critics alike for making a fine comedy of superheroism....
...Contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 and those tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 rose 0.4 per cent and 0.8 per cent respectively....
...Like the young male protagonists of Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical Almost Famous, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, I too turned 15 in 1973....
...Number 10’s flagship high-speed rail scheme in the north of England, HS2, Gee noted, had been approved at a price range of £72bn to £110bn, raising potential for between £1.4bn and £7.4bn in fraud and corruption...
...(His last film as a director was a belated prequel, 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful.) For Judy Garland’s Dorothy, it was all a dream. For Strange, vice versa....
...Birtwistle’s breakthrough came with the premiere of Punch and Judy at the 1968 Aldeburgh Festival....
...It also reinforces the mantra of shareholder primacy, argues Judy Samuelson, who founded the business and society programme at the Aspen Institute, based in Washington....
...The first, 2018’s Anthem of the Peaceful Army, attracted withering notices, but also found a willing public: it reached number three in the US charts....
...MM: You quote Judy Samuelson [founder of the Aspen Institute’s business and society programme] saying a reckoning on corporate taxes is coming. How will it change business models?...
...The industry has failed to beat the S&P over the long haul. So why do people buy in? The FT’s Robert Armstrong investigates in his newsletter Unhedged....
...“Robust Chinese trade data, along with strong domestic macro data, show the resilience of Chinese commodities demand growth,” said Judy Su, an analyst at Citi....
...“Perhaps there was some nostalgia for the animals he’d seen on his travels,” says Judy Weeks of the Swythamley Historical Society, who has researched his story....
...For Judy Samuelson, who founded the Aspen Institute’s business and society programme, one of the biggest culprits is the shareholder primacy mantra, which has been drilled into investors and corporate executives...
...Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe are on hand to answer. Stratton and Australian cinema are “kind of inseparable”, says Neill. He’s “so much a part of Australian film culture,” adds Kidman....
...The departed “s” signals a modernised brief some time in the making — explicitly wider than cinemas, crossing platforms, spanning screens....
...(FT) Vote on Fed board nominees The US Senate banking committee is expected to vote along party lines to approve Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors....
...As is Renée Zellweger, who starred in Chicago and is now acting and singing as Judy Garland in the new biopic Judy. Pierce Brosnan, whose vocal performance in Mamma Mia! was widely ridiculed, is not....
...Light years away from the chilly white chambers of Andrei Tarkovsky’s art film Solaris and George and Judy Jetsons’ stark, gadget-laden Skypad apartment, retrofuturism’s 21st-century reboot is warm, sensual...
...A hearing will also be heard on two of Donald Trump’s nominations for the Fed’s board of governors, Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller, on Thursday....
...Her set drew on her electrifying debut EP, 1991, alongside tracks from mixtapes and the only studio album she has released so far, 2014’s Broke with Expensive Taste....
...When Judy Garland’s Dorothy turns up in the Land of Oz she tells her loyal little terrier Toto: “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.”...
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