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DIED. JEAN-LUC LAGARDERE, 75, French industrialist who built a small defense subcontractor into one of Europe's largest conglomerates and whose holdings include the company that makes Airbus jets and the Hachette magazine group, publisher of Car and Driver and Elle; of sudden complications after a hip operation; in Paris...
From his roots in aircraft design, founder Jean-Luc expanded into magazine publishing. Today son Arnaud leads the charge into book publishing by the publicly traded PARIS-based holding company...
...Jean-Luc Lagardere trained as an engineer at Marcel Dassault's aircraft-design business in the 1950s and went on to run a small Dassault subcontractor called Matra. In 1980 he diversified into media by acquiring magazine group Hachette and today publishes 222 titles, including Paris Match, Car and Driver and Elle. A foray into TV almost bankrupted Matra, but it recovered, and the publicly traded firm--now called Lagardere Group--with $14 billion in annual sales is weathering the economic downturn. Through aggressive dealmaking, he has spun his stake in Matra into a 15% share of EADS, which makes...
Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier each publish the genetic sequence of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
...Cultural trade in movies used to be a one-way street that ran West to East. Hollywood or Paris would disgorge some spiffy hit, and before you could say call my lawyer, an unofficial Asian remake would be in the theaters. So Hong Kong ripped off Luc Besson's Nikita in a homage called Black Cat. Plot theft is as common a factor in the Indian film industry as doleful, dancing heroines. Just this year, the U.S. thriller What Lies Beneath was turned into Raaz, and the Polish art film A Short Film About Love became the scandalous Ek Chhotisi...