Word: hollywoodism
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...easy. Bronfman must compete against a gaggle of better-financed suitors. Even if he does manage to assemble credible backers and buy back the businesses, many in Hollywood and on Wall Street doubt he has what it takes to run them. Still, the ploy may be his best shot at redeeming his, and his family's, tarnished fortune and reputation. If nothing else, it might boost the value of their holdings in Vivendi...
...make no mistake, say his friends: Edgar Jr. would love to climb back into the mogul role. He has always loved Hollywood. The grandson of Seagram founder and former bootlegger Samuel Bronfman, Edgar Jr. began his career writing songs performed by Dionne Warwick and Ashford and Simpson and producing small movies. Pulled into the family business in 1982 by his father and made CEO in 1994, he scored wins by pushing premium brands like Chivas Regal and Absolut, and buying and selling Tropicana for a juicy profit. But Hollywood continued to beckon. He dumped the company's safe, lucrative stake...
...talk about in Washington, D.C., is the people's money." Bush used this formulation throughout the 2000 campaign, and I always found it a bit confusing. It sounded as if the Federal Government were a toxic fungus implanted upon the banks of the Potomac by communists, space aliens or Hollywood celebrities and not, in the words of history's greatest Republican, "of the people, by the people, for the people...
...speculated that big American stars and producers would boycott Cannes in solidarity with the U.S. government's cold-shouldering of France. This notion of Cannes as a family picnic, where the feudin' cousins stay home, ignores what the festival really is: a place where movies are seen and sold. Hollywood will go anywhere to sell its product, and so will its grand old icons. Who came to Cannes? Just Clint Eastwood - he practically is America. And Arnold Schwarzenegger - he practically owns it. Best Post-Festival Conspiracy Theory: The gay-Mafia rumor. Though Lars Von Trier's Dogville was deemed front...
...talk about in Washington, D.C., is the people's money." Bush used this formulation throughout the 2000 campaign, and I always found it a bit confusing. It sounded as if the Federal Government were a toxic fungus implanted upon the banks of the Potomac by communists, space aliens or Hollywood celebrities and not, in the words of history's greatest Republican, "of the people, by the people, for the people...