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...A talent scout for Robert Altman famously discovered her at a party in Texas, and the director then cast her as Suzanne in Brewster McCloud....
...Armed only with cash from SoftBank and its founder Masa, Vision Fund 2 seemingly entered into a Brewster’s Millions-style contest with Tiger Global to see who could plough the most money into the biggest...
...He didn’t just alternate films noirs (Thieves Like Us, The Long Goodbye) with comedies (Brewster McCloud, A Wedding). He cocktailed whole new blends....
...“During my short time back on the Amigo board, I have witnessed a company committing slow motion suicide, whilst playing out the script of Brewster’s Millions,” Mr Benamor wrote on a blogging site in March...
...Mr Benamor said Amigo was “committing slow motion suicide, whilst playing out the script of Brewster’s Millions”, the 1980s comedy film where a character attempts to spend money as quickly as possible....
...Huawei UK’s Ed Brewster said: “Regrettably our future in the UK has become politicised, this is about US trade policy and not security.”...
...Daryl Brewster, CEO of CECP, an organisation focused on “corporate purpose”, welcomed the initiative....
...“These New Zealanders want to take all my goop,” the artist Len Lye wrote to Robert Graves in 1974....
...Robert Read, an art expert at Hiscox, the insurance company, said Chagall’s “Le Jongleur de Paris”, offered at Sotheby’s tomorrow, would be a barometer. Its value is estimated at $2m-$3m....
...Robert Khuzami, the director of the SEC’s division of enforcement, said: “Forewarned is forearmed – investment advisers must make good on their promises or face the consequences of vigorous SEC enforcement...
...Mutual fund group Fidelity is teaming up with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, in an unusual deal that will give Fidelity’s huge retail client base access to future public listings of KKR-owned...
...Robert Rubin on Friday said he would leave Citigroup after a controversial decade on its board as it emerged that the company was in talks to cede control of its Smith Barney brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley...
...The Robert L. Lappin Foundation, which financed trips to Israel for Jewish students, said it would shut after losing its entire $7m endowment....
...At Citigroup, executives and Robert Rubin, a director and senior adviser, have told the board they are ready to give up their bonuses. Executives at other banks are under pressure to follow suit....
...Matthew Bennett, head of the Hong Kong office of Robert Walters, said that his firm had diversified to reduce reliance on financial services, and covered a range of sectors including retail, IT, telecoms...
...In Palm Beach, one of the main middlemen for Mr Madoff’s business was Robert Jaffe, according to several investors....
...Bain Capital, Hellman & Friedman and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are among the private equity groups circling the asset management businesses....
...Last November, the group received $1.25bn from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, in a private placement....
...‘I HAVEN’T OPENED A STATEMENT FOR MONTHS’ Christina Read is 61 and, at least on paper, has lost half her life’s savings in the past year, writes Deborah Brewster....
...Mr Mack and two directors, Robert Kidder and Howard Davies, have been under fire from CtW, a coalition of union-backed investment funds, for “risk management failures” that led to $9.4bn in mortgage-related...
...Robert Kidder, Donald Nicolaisen, Charles Noski and Charles Phillips. CtW also opposes Mr Kidder and Mr Davies – accusing them of “risk management failures” that led to the writedown....
...He helped Robert Bass, the Texas billionaire, buy American Savings Bank, turned that company around and sold it to WaMu in 1996....
...On Friday, the group closed its deal for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, to take a $1.25bn stake in the company....
...Negative sentiment – Deborah Brewster iand Jennifer Hughes Concern about short-selling tends to escalate when markets decline....
...Legg Mason, the US fund management company, has joined the rush to shore up capital, selling $1.25bn in convertible senior notes to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm....
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