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Once a musician is described as a "bad boy icon," his 15 minutes of fame tend to be up. So why is EMI betting the farm on Robbie Williams, the British crooner and former "fat dancer" from Take That who has sold a respectable but unspectacular 692,000 records in the U.S.? Williams's new deal is estimated at around $90 million, the largest ever for a British artist. In part, EMI is playing to the global market; Williams has sold nearly 20 million records worldwide since 1996. But the company has been burned before: in 2001, it signed Mariah...
...million toward undergraduate scholarships, $3 million to fund undergraduate seminars, and $12 million to convert part of Memorial Hall into a dining hall for first-year students. Named in honor of Annenberg’s late son, Roger Annenberg ’62, the hall has become a campus icon and an essential part of the undergraduate experience at Harvard...
...charm and cute on the outside, but inside he's pure devil." In a complex play on the concept of the Muse, Waldo inspires Ted to create a like-named cartoon character for the animation studio his brother Al runs. While "Waldo" becomes a national icon, Waldo sends poor Ted to the bottle and in and out of sanatoriums. Paralleling this are the lives of Al, the pragmatic, artless businessman, Lillian, Ted's love interest and Al's mistress, Windsor Newton the pioneering animator, and Nathan, Al's miserable, estranged son and the only other person who sees Waldo. Beginning...
...like trying to sell ice to the Eskimos," says a London fashion writer. "It's like trying to sell sand to the Arabs," sniffs an executive at a competing British fashion house. The news that Ralph Lauren, the icon of American style, is pushing hard to expand in Europe is being greeted with a certain degree of skepticism. And bitchiness. Who needs a mass American brand like Lauren's when you have the class of Armani, Zegna, Dior and Savile Row? Sure, Europeans are happy to wear a polo player by Lauren instead of an alligator by Lacoste when summering...
...Scenes From a Charmed Life Images from childhood to royalty, of a mother and icon...