Word: mogul
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...Size of two tears casino mogul Steve Wynn made in Pablo Picasso's Le Rve when he accidentally elbowed the canvas...
...beach front villa and Widener Library were completed in 1915 and were designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. The estate, dubbed Miramar—meaning “look to the sea”—had gone through numerous provenances before it was sold to real estate mogul Andrew Panteleakis in 1971 for $118,000. Panteleakis put the estate on the market two years ago, and though it drew interest, nobody was willing to pay its $25 million asking price. “The seller has decided to use the auction as a way of bringing finality...
...Footlights around 1960, it had a glittering comic cachet. That was due largely to Peter Cook, who was a god to the younger members, his monologues passed down by oral tradition in the pre-tape era. David Frost, a Footlights secretary, would soon launch himself as a TV comedy mogul with That Was the Week That Was and The Frost Report, for which he drew on Oxbridge grads, including all five British Pythons, as writers and performers. (Later Footlighters included Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Douglas Hitchhiker Adams and, some sources say, Baron Cohen...
...sweet memories of summer. Just a few weeks ago, Telecom Italia's dashing chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera boarded Rupert Murdoch's private yacht off the Greek island of Zakynthos, seeking to buy media content from the Aussie-born mogul for Telecom's broadband service. Even more enticing was the possibility that Murdoch might want a stake in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Italian company's mobile-phone unit, which would help lift it out of its €41 billion debt. At the very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water...
...weekly news program Dan Rather Reports on HDNet, a high-definition TV network that airs in 3 million homes. The one-hour show will draw heavily from the Rather repertoire: field reports, investigative stories, interviews. "I want Dan Rather to be Dan Rather," says Mark Cuban, sports mogul and chairman of HDNet. To that end, he named Rather the show' s producer and gave him full editorial control. For Rather, that means he can pursue stories without worrying about what the suits upstairs think. "Free people in a democratic system need hard news," says Rather, who plans to roam...