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...Bennett based his decision on McCartney's and Mills' contributions to the marriage and on their future needs. Mills claimed that McCartney stopped her from pursuing a U.S. television career, including work on the Larry King show, which "would have made millions." Bennett doesn't mince words. "I am prepared to assume in the wife's favour that Larry King did float the idea of the wife doing further interviews on his show. But I doubt it got any further than that...
Bennett's conclusion: that Mills' "association with the husband advanced, not stultified, her career." Nevertheless, after a detailed, almost actuarial calculation of her prospects and needs, he awarded her the 24.3 million pounds, much less than what she demanded but a still substantial award. "I've had worse press than a pedophile or a murderer and I've done nothing but charity for 20 years," Mills complained in a broadcast interview last year. The detailed court judgment is unlikely to improve her public image, but may not harm her future prospects. There's no such thing as bad publicity, according...
...sense, it's apt that his last film be shown on TV, the medium in which he started his career. Having grown up in the Isle of Wight, he graduated from the University of Hull in North Yorkshire, England, and started writing plays that won him a few awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars...
...accommodating attitude doesn’t change the fact that the cadets are being trained for a career that can’t be simulated in the classroom...
...He’s not ruling out a career in Kurdish politics...