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When she performs, Coco is all business. At a banquet room recently in Hong Kong's Grand Hyatt hotel, CoCo is doing a soundcheck before a Chanel pret-a-porter show. Earphones on, she belts out A Love Before Time. She is into it, but the others in the room sense something isn't right: CoCo sounds like a weak lounge singer at a crowded bar. Her performance smile fades as sister Nancy gives her the bad news. Throwing her shoulders back, the singer barks commands to the soundman, masking her anger with a shiny smile. With precision, Nancy...
...first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter for Dreamworks in 1999, and Nonzee is pushing the production schedule to wrap in time to exhibit the film at Cannes...
...donors become more important, so direct-mail operations will become even more aggressive, and the "bundlers" who can enlist 100 or so donors from their company or union will have even more clout. In place of the coffee for 20 donors who give $50,000 apiece will come the banquet for 500 donors who give $2,000 apiece. The hustle never stops...
...great honor," said the soft-spoken Jonas at the awards banquet held in Lake Placid, N.Y. "I want to thank everyone, the coaching staff...
...catered conference banquet Saturday night on MIT's campus, representatives of the biotechnology industry mingled with prominent Harvard professors including Professor of Medicine Warner V. Slack and Professor of Science and Public Policy Sheila S. Jasanoff...