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...Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is one of the pioneers of the $4tn private equity industry, having co-founded Carlyle Group in 1987 alongside William Conway and Daniel D’Aniello....
...“Emily [Blunt] is a best friend – and [Robert] Downey [Jr],” he says of the “surrogate family” who have been with him throughout. “I couldn’t have got through it without them....
...That old lesson played out again last month as French director Justine Triet won the Cannes Palme d’Or for courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall....
...In Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese made him Tammany Hall scoundrel William “Boss” Tweed. For Luhrmann, he was svengali Harold Zidler, owner of the Moulin Rouge....
...One of the principal singers in January was mezzo Joyce DiDonato and here she is again, heading an entirely different line-up of cast and orchestra....
...I’d never had anything like that in my life at that cost, it was crazy. The last thing I bought and loved was an evening jacket. I had an accident with my normal one....
...Lisette Oropesa and Joyce DiDonato head a fine cast....
...One of the most colourful among those taken hostage and led into the mountains was Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of oil and banking tycoon John D Rockefeller Jr....
...And I'd be, like, oh, the thing. And I'd be on PowerPoint making a sponsorship proposal. Networking is a huge thing. Takes up tons of time....
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...But one of his MPs, Iain Paisley Jr, has repeatedly insisted that the framework “does not cut the mustard”....
...Whatever you think about her natural remedies and hokey theories, her no-bullshit candour and focus is something in which I’d happily invest....
...The former chorus girl, a white Creole demi-mondaine, a vagabond on the fringes of the modernist movement in Paris, enjoyed a succèss d’estime with four novels in the 1920s and 1930s and then simply vanished...
...The FT’s US trade correspondent Aime Williams has more on what a delay in lifting the tariffs on UK metals means for the country....
...Hank Williams Jr’s witty tale of the mishaps of a touring country musician, “OD’d in Denver”, is stripped down musically but built up vocally, with Callahan and Oldham singing in overdubbed unison, accompanied...
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...In 1995, local philanthropist Mitchell Wolfson Jr opened The Wolfsonian, a South Beach museum devoted to 19th and 20th-century objects and design....
...“A friend called to ask if I’d be interested in something like this, and I said yes, but I was doubtful we’d get access,” JR says....
...“Changes the face of the place” is the gruff verdict of warehouse team leader Alan Duff Jr, 27....
...The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ranging from Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs to Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, while some claim James Joyce to be buried...
...US media reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle, partner of the president’s son Donald Trump Jr, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday before the Mount Rushmore event....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...I’d be pretty blind without them. The idea I wish I’d come up with myself is Elon Musk’s [satellite constellation] Starlink....
...“I’d been in therapy for a long time and it grew out of my experience as a patient.”...
...He didn’t have his books, but he’d brought, in his head, poetry — he’d held that.” Library of exile is an act of restitution, then....
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