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...Checchi is good looking, in the John F. Kennedy mold. He's smart, Harvard M.B.A. smart. And he's rich, very rich, centimillionaire rich. He has a gated mansion in Beverly Hills, a beautiful lawyer wife, a California tan--and enough of a '60s sensibility to feel guilty about it all. After nearly three decades of making money with the Marriott Corp., the Walt Disney Co., the Bass brothers and Northwest Airlines, Checchi says it's time to give something back. At age 49, he's running for office for the first time in his life. He wants...
When Microsoft potentate Bill Gates strolls his vast mansion in Washington (the state), the music changes to suit his taste, the art morphs into his favorite styles, and the entire environment--like the computer-software market--realigns itself to meet his needs...
Morris suggests that the secret to his success is simple: pick people who pick catchy songs. He should know, having written the 1966 hit Sweet Talkin' Guy. "He's the only person heading a music distributor who's had success at two major companies," says author Fred Goodman, whose Mansion on the Hill traces the ascent of music moguls. Perhaps the most tantalizing part of his latest job is competing with his old employer. "I don't feel any need for vindication," says Morris about Warner. "That's not to say I don't want our company...
When historians hunt for telling moments in the 1996 Donorgate scandal, they may point to a White House coffee in December 1995 when would-be giver RUBEN VELEZ, apparently unaware of the law against contributing in the Executive Mansion, tried to hand over five checks. Velez, Puerto Rico's biggest builder, may have had more than protocol on his mind...
...rich are different; they kill with epigrams. In the Pascal mansion just before Thanksgiving dinner, Mother (Genevieve Bujold) says, "I'm going to go baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives." When daughter Jackie-O (Parker Posey) is asked what a gun is doing in the house, she shrugs: "Just being gunlike. Gun-esque. Gun-onic...