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...Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire by James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams (Cornerstone Press/Penguin Press) Sex and power were the abiding obsessions of the colourful media mogul Sumner...
...Walter Jospin Atlanta, GA, US...
...At least 10 senior professionals have left Guggenheim in the past 15 months, including co-head of corporate credit Jeff Abrams, macro strategist Anne Mathias and chief financial officer Brad Olson....
...Some Luck by Jane Smiley, Mantle, RRP£18.99/ Knopf, RRP$26.95, 400 pages Rebecca Abrams is author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador)...
...wrote librettos for Richard Strauss, discussed translation with James Joyce, was a close friend of Rilke and Freud (he gave the sermon at the latter’s funeral in London), knew Bernard Shaw, Romain Rolland, Walter...
...The move is the latest sign of recovery in the shipping industry. ” (Reuters) COMMENT etc William “Billy” Walters, Icahn, Mickelson and their insider trading probe (WSJ) Block Juncker to save European...
...Nutter’s glittering costumes for Elton John, Neil Sedaka and others are much more flamboyant than Walter Van Beirendonck’s costumes for U2’s PopMart tour, which will be on view at MoMu and include black...
...Love Looks Not with the Eyes: Thirteen years with Lee Alexander McQueen, by Anne Deniau, Abrams, RRP£45 This has been a year of Alexander McQueen books – at last count there were at least four of them...
...Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, by Walter Isaacson, Little, Brown, RRP£25 Rushed into print only weeks after the death of the Apple founder, Isaacson’s book sets out to be the definitive history of...
...he started his tenure by sacking the secretary of the army and a commanding general for failing to recognise the scandal of the medical treatment of wounded American soldiers from Iraq at the flagship Walter...
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