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...Except, curiously, Molly. There's something so innocent and vulnerable about Dupree that it slowly awakens her sympathy - especially when she contrasts it to Carl's workaholic and neglectful ways. He has been rendered sullen and distracted by her real estate mogul father (Michael Douglas), for whom he works. The old man is sabotaging a project he has given his son-in-law. Worse, he's trying to sabotage their marriage - proposing, among other things, that Carl replace his own last name with Molly's and, incidentally, have a vasectomy, so as not to pollute the family gene pool...
...record-breaking sale of a Rembranbt for $2.3 million caused a stir in 1961, but adjusted for inflation, that's only $15.6 million today. Only? Makeup mogul Ronald Lauder last week paid $135 mil for this glittering Klimt, setting a new all-time high for a painting. Here's a gallery of other works that have held the title...
...sleazy, Luciferian Deal persona is not exactly friendly, but it befits a show about sex, greed and temptation. And it's a sign of how hosting has changed since the Beat the Clock era. Says Merv Griffin, the former talk-show host and now billionaire talk- and game-show mogul: Time was, "you hired an M.C. who every mother-in-law would love." But in the reality-TV era, talk and game shows allow, if not require, more edge. We've gone from Bill Cullen's genial cheerleading to Gordon Ramsay's four-letter culinary arias on Hell's Kitchen...
...Maverick Mogul TIME's Feb. 16, 1968, cover story profiled John Kenneth Galbraith, the influential economist, diplomat and prolific author who died in April...
...will make after being selected in an online fan vote from a pool of Winter Games standouts to appear in the upcoming sixth season of the popular reality show, The Apprentice, debuting in January. The program, the brainchild of real estate mogul Donald Trump, pits two teams against each other in tasks testing their character, business acumen, and entrepreneurship, with the least apt candidate—in the eyes of The Donald—getting eliminated each week to the sound of his trademark “You’re fired!” catch phrase...