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...So were Bill Ackman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman....
...Mack knifed Bathmane Mack… ha… I will never forget being promoted to MD at Morgan Stanley, the black-tie dinner was at the museum Temple of Dendor in NYC under Mack....
...‘I have f***ing killed it’ Former Morgan Stanley chief executive John Mack may have led the investment bank into a crisis, but he has few regrets....
...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....
...His book ZZYZX (Mack, 2016) won the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook of the Year award, and his new book Omaha Sketchbook (Mack, 2019), the result of 15 years’ work in Nebraska, is an equivocal study of US...
...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.”...
...In 2001, John Mack stepped down as Morgan Stanley’s president in a power struggle with Phil Purcell, the chief executive. All three made comebacks....
...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....
...Hang round North Colonnade scoring names off a list and whistling “Mack the Knife”. Politely indicate it would be advisable to deliver returns above the cost of capital. Try not to use the F word....
...Bob Hoffman, a veteran American adman who blogs as the Ad Contrarian, has gained a large following for his savage critiques of digital hype....
...Fellow American and Rosneft director John Mack recently quit the board, though professedly for personal reasons....
...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?”...
...Rival Thai Beverage, which holds a 30.57 per cent stake in F&N, agreed to support F&N’s sale of APB, paving the way for a $4.6bn purchase of the maker of Tiger beer by Heineken....
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