Hints and tips:
...John Kennedy was killed on the day, the anniversary. My fifth birthday. My mother was a big supporter of the Kennedys....
...See if you can spot a painting of Elizabeth Taylor and a print of Oscar Wilde....
...Carpenter (1982’s The Thing), William Friedkin (1987’s Rampage), Warren Beatty (1998’s Bulworth), Pedro Almodóvar (1989’s Tie Me Up!...
...MCO 10 Rue Hérold, 75001; leclaireur.com Hervia Bazaar, ManchesterFounder Oscar Pinto-Hervia is a retail visionary....
...The Oscars will also be delayed until April....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed halting “risky” mergers and acquisitions to stop large companies from exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to gobble up...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway boosted shares in upmarket furniture retailer RH, a $206m investment that is one of the most notable in the third quarter....
...Gems include the Oscar and Kenny dining tables and the curvy Isla coffee table, with pink Rojo Alicante top....
...“They didn’t really go into a lot of detail but it doesn’t seem to move the needle — it just looks bad,” said John Baumgartner, analyst at Wells Fargo....
...Profit margins at the group behind brands including Philadelphia cream cheese, Oscar Mayer hot dogs and Maxwell House coffee were “world leading”, he wrote in a memo to employees....
...It spent $10m doing so for its Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Yet there are clear limits to the health kick....
...“The fossilised bedrock of many of Hollywood’s worst abuses are being jackhammered into oblivion,” said Academy president John Bailey, keen to take credit at last month’s lunch for Oscar nominees....
...Even the likes of Oscar Wilde, imprisoned for gross indecency, worked the treadmill....
...The Weinstein Company board is due to form a special committee of independent directors to consider evidence supplied by John Kiernan, a lawyer with Debevoise & Plimpton....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...The same message has been delivered to the maker of Kool-Aid drinks and Oscar Mayer hot dogs, with a flat rejection of a deal that would be the second-biggest in corporate history....
...As John Lanchester, author of the novel Capital, has remarked, the most frightening words in the English language aren’t “I had a very interesting dream last night” (Oscar Wilde’s candidate) but “Did you...
...For John Roberts, chief executive of AO.com, the FTSE-listed electrical retailer, it all comes down to family values....
...A staircase winds up to a warren of rooms on different floors. They are filled with Mackintosh veterans....
...The producer Oscar Jaffee, portrayed by Peter Gallagher, is fleeing a theatrical flop....
...John Cahill, Kraft’s chief executive, has long admired 3G’s meticulous, cost-conscious approach to doing business....
...But Gramm, who himself runs a hedge fund, is an engaging and critical guide to a century of US activism and activists, including Ross Perot and Warren Buffett....
...Annie Hall beat Star Wars as best film at the Oscars, while Grease was the biggest grossing film. An industrial dispute that was to last a year closed down The Times newspaper....
...Visiting lecturers have included Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell and John Betjeman....
...I thought of offering it to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway – what a return! They are 75 and 71 now, but then I thought they might be hurt. It wouldn’t be a joke, though....
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