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...But the most intriguing aspects of the performance of Wagner’s opera at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on January 18 (the first of three) were the set design and the cast....
...Actis has promoted Neda Vakilian, head of the firm’s investor solutions group, and Davi Carvalho Mota, director of its long life infrastructure strategy, to partners....
...that series, and perhaps to compensate, all manner of extra ingredients were ladled on: a pre-performance stand-up supper, a post-performance of music made by sounding everyday objects, narrator Helga Davis...
...The best gift I’ve given recently is a pre-1910 locket from Gray & Davis, a vintage jewellery shop in New York....
...Which 1942 film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains takes its title from a poem by Walt Whitman? Who was the MP for Tooting from 2005 to 2016, before taking up another political post?...
...It featured scenery based on Walt Disney cartoons, signed up Agnes de Mille as choreographer and boasted a raft of great African American performers....
...Comcast’s lawyers at Davis Polk and Freshfields are due up to £24m, while its public relations advisers team, which includes London-based Tulchan Communications, will make £7.7m....
...The Walt Disney Company has nominated Derica Rice, executive vice-president of CVS Health and president of CVS Caremark, to its board for election in March....
...Only a week ago Fox was holding similar talks with Walt Disney....
...Walt Disney, Coach, Mylan and Equifax, the US credit reporting company at the heart of a cyber security scandal, are among those due to unveil quarterly updates....
...Mick Davis, the former boss of Xstrata, looked set to the get the job, until a group of big shareholders blocked his appointment....
...But after the company failed to achieve growth levels to match the lofty valuations, it was sold in December for a reported $50m to tech publisher Ziff Davis....
...Mashable, which was valued at $250m last year, is said to be close to a sale to the tech publisher Ziff Davis for $50m....
...Mr Davis was suspended following an internal inquiry into Rio’s payments to François Polge de Combret, who served as a consultant to the company on its Simandou iron ore project in Guinea....
...The offer from Univision represents a 50 per cent premium to the initial $90m bid by Ziff Davis, its main competition in the auction....
...Caselotti’s haunting loneliness was a perfect match for Davis’ purity of tone....
...Vice’s valuation has risen to more than $4bn after securing investment from, among others, Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox....
...Bollywood meets Hollywood in Quantico, a drama on Walt Disney’s ABC network, with Priyanka Chopra playing an FBI agent on the run after being implicated in a terrorist plot....
...Stuart Davis gave substance to that theory in his best work, though not in the relatively sedate “Theater on the Beach”, a dreamy print of a performer whose body is segmented like a butcher’s diagram of...
...Mr Katzenberg was in China this week for a business conference, as was Bob Iger, the chief executive of Walt Disney....
This week’s new film releases reviewed: Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’, ‘5 Broken Cameras’, ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’, ‘Ginger and Rosa’ and ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’
...This is, after all, a woman of whom Bette Davis, who played Aimee’s mother opposite Faye Dunaway in a 1976 television movie, said: “She was nothing but a whore....
...Walt Disney was aware of the lawsuit when it paid $563m to acquire Playdom in August and it appears to have taken the decision to settle....
...“Because there were supply chain problems, it didn’t make sense to go out with a lot of consumer marketing,” says Helen Davis Jayalath, a research analyst with the company....
...Around the corner in Chelsea Paul Davis and Partners’ Duke of York’s Square successfully blends the modern and the classical....
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