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...Odey’s secretary responded: “I’m afraid he does not wish to invest in the company. He sends his regrets and wishes you well.”...
...He has won two prizes at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), the Oscars of the watch world. His workshop in Geneva’s old town is a place of pilgrimage....
...He would go from Oscar nominee to combat casualty in the space of six weeks....
...I wanted one for a very long time, and when the mother of my children and I split up I thought, I’m going to get the bloody thing. I’d sit one of my boys next to me and one in the back seat....
...By his teens, he’d attained a drama school scholarship; at 23, he won the American TV talent show Star Search....
...And so in show business, it's fantastic that I'm a 64-year-old woman that won the Oscar, and Michelle Yeoh was a 60-year-old woman who won the Oscar. That is fantastic....
...I figured I’d miss my last chance to see it on the big screen if it hadn’t won....
...It peaked in 2022 with 599 shows — meaning you’d have to watch 1.6 series a day to see all of them....
...But this was to be no ordinary stay at the pleasure palace immortalised in F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Tender is the Night....
...But also Hydra after Leonard Cohen, the Côte d’Azur of F Scott Fitzgerald and the myriad Mediterranean places that had been unspoiled repositories of legend until the moneyed landed there with their elephant...
...My style icon is John F Kennedy Jr. I like his flow: a bit chic, but poetic and sporty at the same time....
...“They’d blow up,” says Gary Chapman, who runs the YouTube channel Gary Vapes. “In the very beginning, you’d see that happening quite a bit, which was a shame. It gave vaping a bad name.”...
...“I just can’t wait for everyone to shut the f*ck up,” says Wasson, who is very warm and chatty, as she sticks her bowl in the microwave....
...Lee AndersonI’m not gonna sit here and make excuses to anyone. This is out of control. We know we’re in power at the moment. And I’m a deputy chair of the Conservative party....
...She started at Pixar as an intern in 2011, and by 2018 she’d directed a short, Bao, which won an Oscar....
...Her doctor worried she was using the bike story as a cover, and asked her repeatedly if it was sexual assault....
...I had like a Tupperware full of coq au vin that I’d covered. So I was like, I mean, this is messy as hell, but anyway it tastes good. I’m really glad I learned how to do it....
...Her answers to long Covid, for example, were roundly dismissed by scientists and doctors: an NHS spokesperson described her advocacy of infrared saunas and serums as “really not the solutions we’d recommend...
...I’m a doctor. I live in London. I work for the NHS. I’m married with two children and I’m 38....
...And I’d say, ‘No it didn’t.’ And they’d say, ‘Yes, yes, I saw it.’”...
...I swore I’d never go to a fight again. People still get dressed up for fights....
...The movement was championed by politicians, among them Ronald Reagan, and intellectuals such as William F Buckley....
...I’m Lilah Raptopoulos....
...A popular Trumpian T-shirt says: “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat”. More seriously, the number of rightwing militias in the US has exploded in recent years....
...An indulgence I’d never forgo is dessert. I have a terrible sweet tooth. If you put warm blueberry or pecan pie with vanilla ice-cream in front of me, I’m done....
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