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...The Spanish star is a seasoned hand in channelling Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani et al (in several Italian films, as well as Almodóvar’s Volver), and here she exudes both playful and tragic magnificence....
...One thing to start: German sandal maker Birkenstock is seeking a valuation of more than $8bn from an initial public offering, as its private equity owner L Catterton unveiled its filing for a stock market...
...Actors Sophia Loren, Jessica Chastain and Benicio Del Toro were there in spite of the SAG-AFTRA strike that has kept many in Hollywood away....
...When l made the point to her about coping so well, she answered, ‘well l work for a **** company where nothing works, so I’m used to broken equipment and being stress-tested by game-playing stupid senior...
...“We shouldn’t give up on DB because the average duration is still 15 years,” says Nigel Wilson, chief executive of L&G....
...Undeterred, Sophia converts her fury into a tantrum — and kicks off a climate campaign no one can ignore....
...One morning Sophia finds him staring at the wall, drinking and smoking, his eyes red and his skin grey. “Thank God you have no idea what it is like, Sophia,” says Karl-Heinrich....
...While not an Oxford Tory, Kuper is an Oxonian who went to that university at roughly the same time as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan, Dominic Cummings and Jacob Rees-Mogg, all notable student...
...Roughly equidistant between the Champs Elysées and the Pont de l’Alma, the hotel occupies a prized corner of Georges V with the Rue Pierre Charron....
...L Rich, the family-business man Hola, team! Thanks for coming to this emergency all-hands huddle....
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s defence of Dominic Cummings has provoked a furious backlash. Attempts to justify a 264-mile lockdown trip have failed to silence calls for the top aide’s resignation....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...But Mr Cummings said Democrats had to be careful over their approach....
...The owner of L’Europeo Di Mattozzi, Alfonso Mattozzi, is unbelievably welcoming, making you feel like part of the family and the city....
...Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming will be in the same space just before them in a new staging of Beckett’s mordant existentialist classic Endgame (Old Vic from January 27)....
...“Mr Cummings is busily briefing the press over the past few days about how he’s going to run the government, but he still hasn’t given any clear direction.”...
...In January, Mr Cummings will take over as chair of the House Oversight Committee....
...The property, surrounded by lakes and gardens, is part holiday lets, part home to the Wakefield family which includes Dominic Cummings....
...That means that investors may buy a share in, say, L’Oréal in either France or the UK, depending on where the best prices and liquidity are....
...D&L Lemon Mayonnaise, £2.49....
...When I joined Aifa it was kind of moribund and I was responsible for changing its business model, giving it a new P & L, reconnecting it to its membership and delivering quite a lot of organisational change...
...The flagship is the Bürgenstock itself, built in an L-shape at the heart of the resort, and where the funicular clunks to a stop....
...One shareholder, Aviva's David Cumming, came out on Monday to publicly voice his support for Melrose. Natixis gobbles up more M&A boutiques Natixis is on an M&A roll....
...Team Dimension Data rider Stephen Cummings of Britain wins, on 162.5 km Stage 7 from L’Isle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle, of the Tour de France on Friday...
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