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...sermons. It's like "Spartacus to the Romans," complained prosecutor Jim Letten. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola admonished, "This is not a theater." Of course it was. Edwards told of high-stakes poker games in the Governor's mansion and of "stacking up cash and throwing it away" on lavish impulses. Prosecutors say he used $733,567 in cash toward the purchase of a $1.3 million house. "The government prints $200 million in $100 bills every day. Must be a lot of other people using cash besides me," said Edwards, who testified that he likes to keep between...
Gene Kelly once said, "There are no auteurs in musical pictures. It's impossible." He was referring to Singing in the Rain, a film that satirizes Hollywood while at the same time celebrating its excesses. Lavish sets, elaborate dance routines, thousands of costumes, hundreds of performers, whimsy and drama all in a extravagant package bursting with talented collaborators and tied off with a nice satiny bow. This is big-budget, Hollywood style filmmaking-a way of making movies that has become de rigeur since World War II. Kelly was not only talking about a single movie, he was anticipating...
...heir apparent to the Li empire; and of the differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share is a penchant for being seen with beautiful women; Ka-shing is a widower, and Richard has never married.) When asked which businessman he admires most, Richard mentions not Dad but Sony's co-founder...
...have a shower and running water. The toilet is a problem, though. Designed to flush, it sometimes doesn't, owing to an overly lavish use of tissue, which I don't wish to go into at this time. Suffice it to say the person behind the clogs is not myself or my child, and I've had several long talks with her about...
...Meals seem lavish and ostentatious," says Jacob S. Hacker '94. "But they are really away of bringing together people across fields and generations...