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Mickey Gilley stood with hands on hips in front of the smoldering wreckage of his Branson, Mo., music theater. It was May 11, 1993, a date that would be forever fixed in Gilley's brain. Twenty-four hours earlier, the country-music legend had received a call at his home in Pasadena, Texas, summoning him to the site. Upon seeing the charred ruins, Gilley, a showman to the core, with a diamond-encrusted "MG" necklace and absurdly thick hair, turned to a bandmate and asked, "How am I gonna keep you guys working...
...million lawsuit, though he saw only a small piece of that, including the club, which he gave to Pasadena to cover back property taxes.) Faced with a stalling career, at 53 Gilley decided to be one of the first country artists to open a theater in Branson. Once again, his entrepreneurial instincts proved dead on: Branson became a country-music Las Vegas, buzzing with regular visitors like the Oak Ridge Boys. Soon Gilley was playing two shows a day, six days a week, in his 950-seat theater and selling fans $32 videotapes of the show they had just seen...
...Queensland?s Sunshine Coast and 160 kilometers north of Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired...
...cussed at a lady... My daughter always said I had a potty mouth." COURTNEY LOVE, rock star turned actress, after being arrested for abusive behavior on a Virgin Airlines flight to London that had been at the invitation of founder Richard Branson...
...existence of the side agreement, let alone that the Swiss hadn't signed it. The result: when Sabena's financial crisis boiled over, Swissair argued it wasn't obliged to help. There were other big errors. Sabena signed a costly eight-year code-sharing agreement with Richard Branson's Virgin Express in 1996, under which Virgin flew some Sabena routes to London and other European destinations - though the board apparently was only told about a one-year deal. In 1999, Sabena merged its sales and marketing operations with those of Swissair into a new company, London-based Airline Management Partnership...