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...So were Bill Ackman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman....
...Consider F Scott Fitzgerald, the great poet of ruined glamour and wasted promise....
...F-35 warplane....
...Hoffman and Rubin (respectively played by Sacha Baron Cohen and Succession’s Jeremy Strong) gleefully satirised the court rituals, goading a judge who was starkly unamused....
...It was Pattinson who pursued Denis, rather than vice versa, and she eventually cast him as Monte, a character conceived with a much older actor in mind (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman was once considered...
...Most recently, French group Worldline won a fight to buy Swiss stock market operator SIX’s payments unit for €2.3bn, narrowly beating a rival bid from Nets owner H & F....
...“We’ve been in an arms race for 10 years,” Dr Frank Hoffman tells me over lunch at the National Defense University in Washington DC....
...As an actor, he points out ruefully, “you’re not worried about the f**king budget”. Did he find directing hard? “Sure,” he bats back....
...“I’m past that ‘what the f***’ moment,” he sighs. “I mean, that happened a while ago. That’s already become . . . it’s not ‘what the f***’ any more.”...
...This resulted in the circus-like Chicago Seven trial, which included Abbie Hoffman and Mr Hayden, presided over by the irascible Judge Julius J Hoffman....
...I went over and I tapped on his window and I said, ‘What in the f**k are you telling me, you old moron?’ I said, ‘How dare you have this Trump sticker on your car?...
...Hastings is now run by Gary Hoffman, the troubleshooter who turned round Northern Rock with a little help from the taxpayer....
...Bob Hoffman, a veteran American adman who blogs as the Ad Contrarian, has gained a large following for his savage critiques of digital hype....
...The saga was well captured in the film All The President’s Men, with Jason Robards at his most imperious as the editor, outshining even Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as the young reporters....
...“In a real kitchen you’d hear way more F-bombs,” says Mr Santos, chef at Greenwich Village’s Louro, of the film’s mildly colourful language....
...NBNK, chaired by Lord Levene, the former Lloyd’s of London chairman, and with Gary Hoffman as chief executive, had been due to be wound up....
...When the fake production’s executives in Tinseltown (John Goodman, Alan Arkin) are repeatedly asked by snoopy journos what their film is about and why it is called Argo, they finally reply “Ar-go f*** yourself...
...Some f***ing journalist?”...
...AUO’s $500m fine equals the record penalty for price-fixing in the US, set in a 1999 case against Swiss healthcare company F Hoffman-La Roche, which settled allegations it colluded to fix vitamin prices....
...The proposed fine for the flat-panel maker would be double the previous record of $500m paid by Swiss healthcare company F Hoffman-La Roche in 1999 to settle allegations it colluded to fix vitamin prices...
...A Most Wanted Man (published in 2008, currently being filmed with the wonderful Philip Seymour Hoffman), concerns what he considers to be a gross overreaction to Islamic threat....
...In American Icon, Bryce Hoffman, a veteran reporter with The Detroit News, details “one of the greatest turnarounds in business history”, and, to a lesser extent, the man behind it....
...Once I know that this is an overstatement of several hundred million dollars that is F-R-A-U-D.”...
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media*: From The FT, - F&C gets boost from acquisition - Judge rules on Hands damages in EMI case - G4S loses deportation contract to Reliance...
...black schoolboy – and misgivings about Streep to Hoffman....
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