Word: impresario
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...author of sweet, private kindnesses, a man who proudly displayed his piles of fresh, clean underwear (which he boasted he changed every day!). After Hiroshima, Stalin reflected, "War is barbaric, but using the Abomb is a superbarbarity." This from the man whose Ukrainian famine killed some 10 million, the impresario of the Great Terror, the man who, after Russian soldiers had raped some 2 million women across East Prussia and Germany, asked, "What is so awful about [a soldier's] having...
Still, despite the recent fumbles, no one dismisses Lansing's innate savvy. "She understands stories early on in their idea phase, and she's brilliant when it comes to breaking down scripts and casting," says Lorne Michaels, the Saturday Night Live impresario who produced Mean Girls and more than half a dozen other films under Lansing's watch. Her 2005 slate is highly diverse, ranging from a music film with gangsta rapper 50 Cent to a new version of War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg...
...campaigned his way to New York and their second son, Florida's Governor Jeb, battened down his state for another big blow, Hurricane Frances. They watched with pride as half a dozen relatives caucused in delegations from Maryland, Connecticut, Missouri and Rhode Island. When Bill Marriott, the hotel impresario, sprang for a Bush-family dinner at the downtown Ritz-Carlton, 96 people jammed the room. "Lot of unfamiliar straphangers in there," declared the former President...
...strange choice," says someone who held a senior position in the campaign. "He was an Israeli and obviously a Jew, but that didn't mean he knew anything about the Jewish community of New Jersey." Cipel's relocation to New Jersey was facilitated by real estate impresario Charles Kushner, a top contributor to McGreevey and the Democratic Party. In addition to sponsoring Cipel's U.S. visa, Kushner gave the Israeli a p.r. job worth $30,000 to supplement his meager campaign salary...
...retailer eFashion Solutions and self-described "hick from the sticks," was lingering near the display booth for Rocawear, rapper Jay-Z's apparel line, at a fashion trade show in Las Vegas in February. Suddenly hip-hop impresario Damon Dash, who is Rocawear's celebrity CEO and JayZ's longtime business partner, grabbed Foy's hand and leaned his shoulder against Foy's--"a half a hug," Foy calls it. "eFashion Solutions. Nice," a smiling Dash told Foy. "Real nice." Dash dished out "props" for good reason: powered by eFashion's Web design and marketing, Rocawear is on pace...