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...hold of the best. The jazz singer, pianist and sometime actor is making his theater debut as the composer and lyricist for the new musical Thou Shalt Not. The show's director--and the reason it's the fall's most eagerly anticipated musical--is Broadway's current miracle maker, director-choreographer Susan Stroman, who won a Tony for staging Brooks' The Producers. It's not hard to see what attracted Connick to the show: it's an adaptation of Therese Raquin, Emile Zola's novel of adultery and murder, transplanted from 19th century Paris to post-World...
...Though much of Japan knows the sad story of how Diana Yukawa was orphaned, few are aware of the more complicated side of the tale. She and her mother and sister never asked for financial compensation from JAL and Boeing, the U.S. maker of the plane, until a few years ago. (Batches of compensation, worth a reported $300 million, were given to families of other victims.) Dissatisfied with negotiations, the two sisters traveled to Japan from their home in London last month not only to pay tribute to their father but also to announce they may sue. "We have waited...
...common cause is Reebok International Ltd., Fireman's shoe company, for which Iverson happens to be top pitchman. And the combination is just one reason why Reebok, written off two years ago as a dead maker of fad sneakers, is back. Since signing Iverson, Fireman has pulled down endorsement agreements from women's tennis giant Venus Williams, sponsored two seasons of Survivor and inked a deal with the National Football League to be its exclusive supplier of uniforms and sideline apparel. But the real victory came this month when Fireman and NBA commissioner David Stern announced a 10-year arrangement...
RAYMOND BERTHILLON French ice cream maker...
...once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire and cable maker...