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...studiously removes a drop of syrup with a Q-Tip. No wonder Martha Stewart once offered her a job. But the 34-year-old Australian, who oversees a Sydney-based multimedia lifestyle business that includes a magazine, best-selling cookbooks and an upcoming line of housewares, declined the homemaking maven's offer...
...hours of the night, Mollie is still perky and apt to brandish a tray of home-made cookies at any moment. In between endless editing sessions, Mollie lives a secret existence as a high-powered political intern, fashion retail maven and fitness guru with nary a complaint...
...times may be a’changing, but FM’s insatiable desire for word games remains strong. Her freshman year, outgoing FM chair Rachel E. Dry interviewed local crossword-writing maven, Brendan Emmett Quigley. Three years later, Quigley returns to our pages with a very special FM-related puzzle. Enjoy...
KELLY CONLIN Magazine Maven In October Primedia, publisher of more than 250 specialty magazines like Motor Trend and Soap Opera Digest, named Conlin, 43, its CEO, ending a seven-month search. He had previously headed technology publisher International Data Group, where he helped launch the popular For Dummies book series. Conlin hopes to leverage Primedia's enthusiast titles in a new way, through toys. Gamemaker THQ will release a PC game under Primedia's Hot Rod name, while Radio Shack is selling a Super Street remote-controlled...
JILL GREENTHAL Media Maven In the media business, Greenthal, 47, is a rainmaker, having wrangled, among other things, the $50 billion merger of AT&T and cable operator TCI in 1998. She recently left Credit Suisse First Boston, where she comanaged the global-media investment-banking practice, to join private investment firm Blackstone Group. There she will continue to work with media companies as a senior managing director for the firm's growing mergers and acquisitions business...