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...home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which for years had been unhappily stashed in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a slab of '60s-style bureaucratic neoclassicism with mediocre acoustics. The following year Gehry won the competition to design the new hall. At the time--a decade before the debut at Bilbao--Gehry was best known as the man who made chain link and plywood into respectable building materials. Lillian, who was nearing 90 and whose taste ran to brick and thatched roofs, was utterly puzzled by the whiplashing scoops of Gehry's design, which he had developed with the help...
...chunk of the division's $2 billion--plus revenue comes from licensing shows like Dawson's Creek, but the fastest-growing segment of the business is locally produced programming in countries such as Britain, Spain, France, Italy, China and Chile. Sony's first Russian show makes its debut this fall...
...decade, and it turned profitable this year. Two-thirds of the $150 million raised by its Sept. 18 IPO will stay with the company to fund things like research and development. (Yes, its honchos will net a bundle, but they have actually earned it.) The stock made its debut at $15 and now trades in the low $20s. This is fairly typical of the kind of company selling initial shares--and of the market's receptiveness...
...like boxes," says Daniel Bedingfield. "Human, male, heterosexual, Christian - stop there." But people don't, especially with the 23-year-old singer's music. Though his debut album Gotta Get Thru This sprawls from garage to pop to rock, it's the syrupy ballads that stick in the minds of critics. Lyrics like "If you're not the one, then why does my hand fit yours this way?" have won him a label he loathes: "cheesy pop star." Certainly the star part is true. Gotta Get Thru This has racked up 1.8 million in sales since its debut 15 months...
Wood has also written fiction—his debut novel, The Book Against God, came out earlier this year to mixed reviews, and he also published a collection of essays several years ago, entitled The Broken Estate. Yet he is known mostly for his criticism...