Word: mogul
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...Broccoli is largely echoing the ideas of conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The business mogul turned politico says Italy's cultural treasures need to be showcased and considered a precious source of income for the country. Sounds like history repeating itself: gladiators battling for the pleasure of the latest Caesar...
...event, and its dreadful intimacy - not the long-range crime of missiles fired across borders or dropped from planes, but people leading other people to gas chambers - make it a compelling, nearly irresistible movie theme. "What a wonderful subject to explore in as many ways as possible," indie mogul Harvey Weinstein told the New York Post. "I hope our children get educated about the Holocaust, so it will be 'Never again.' " Death-camp literature is such a reliable attention getter that a few writers have invented memoirs. This week Berkley Books canceled publication of Angel at the Fence when...
...risen above that annual figure since. "The need for revenge, for vengeance is being curbed, the appetite is no longer there," contends Robert Hirschorn, a nationally known Texas attorney and jury consultant who has helped pick juries for many prominent clients, including, most recently, millionaire real estate mogul Robert Durst, who was found not guilty of killing and dismembering his neighbor. "The tide has changed," Hirschorn says. "It used to be fashionable to say, 'I support the death penalty.' It used to be unfashionable to say, 'I am against the death penalty.'" (See the Top 10 Crime Stories...
...essentially a series of clichés. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an upper-class Brit, gets wrapped up in a caper when she treks to her husband’s cattle ranch Down Under on the eve of World War II only to find him dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef industry just in time to win exclusive rights to feed Australian troops.Luckily for Lady Ashley, she’s got Wolverine—uh, I mean Hugh Jackman?...
...media tycoon Murdoch suddenly agree to grant Vanity Fair columnist Wolff unprecedented access to himself (nearly 50 hours of interviews), his family and his business associates? No one is really sure, least of all Wolff. The hard-charging 77-year-old mogul must be aware that for many journalists, "hatred of Murdoch had come to define the profession." But he and his feuding family--including four adult children, a scorned former wife and his current spouse, 39-year-old ex--News Corp. executive Wendi Deng--nonetheless opened themselves up to biographer Wolff's relentless questioning. The result is an inside...