Word: magnetized
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...that was the '80s, when directors still wanted to hire him. He pissed away what should have been his prime by curling inside the legend of the Difficult Star, acquiring an odor as rowdy and unreliable. And since he wasn't a box office magnet, why take the chance? Bio stats on the Internet Movie Database synopsize Rourke's 90s: "Turned down Bruce Willis' role in Pulp Fiction ... Filmed a role in [Terrence Malick's] The Thin Red Line, that eventually got cut.... Walked off the set of Luck of the Draw when the producers refused to let him include...
...first artist to do that. He has the production capacity to supply a big sale, the name recognition, and a relationship with Sotheby's that began four years ago with a London auction of just about everything that wasn't nailed to the floor at Pharmacy, a celebrity-magnet restaurant co-owned by Hirst that gradually lost its magnetism and closed. That sale brought a jaw-dropping $20 million for everything from artworks to Hirst-designed martini glasses. Then, in February, he worked with Sotheby's in New York to solicit 100 major artists, including Jasper Johns and Anish Kapoor...
...throttle back production of the spin and butterfly paintings. The Sotheby's sale is also a canny way of getting his name out to new buyers. "There's our global reach," says Cheyenne Westphal, Sotheby's European chairman of contemporary art. "We're everywhere, and we act as a magnet for all the new people coming into the market." And a lot of those people might be more comfortable in an auction house - where anyone with cash can flex their muscles - than in top galleries, where dealers sometimes try to place works only with important collectors who might lend...
...little wonder that the chance to finally compete has made City followers happy. Boosted by the sale of lucrative TV rights worldwide, Premier League clubs generated a little more than $3.1 billion in revenues in 2006-'07, making the league by far the world's richest and a magnet for overseas players, coaches and investors who are keen to cash in. (Foreigners now own eight of the league's 20 teams.) But making enough money to compete at the top level is becoming harder. Of that revenue, clubs poured some $2 billion into wages alone. The result: less than half...
...last few years, Iraq was the magnet for jihadis around the world. No longer. Afghanistan, which was the center of extremist pilgrimage when it was ruled by the Taliban, has retaken that position, according to European intelligence sources. "The degree to which Islamist extremists around the world have dropped their previous obsession with Iraq and now focus on the Afghan-Pakistan area has been astounding," says one French counter-terrorism official. "No one recruiting for or seeking to join jihadist fighting in Europe are trying to get to Iraq: it's all Afghanistan now," he reports "No one raising money...