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There's a lot of amusing interaction but not much of a plot. Eventually these wayward but well-meaning souls relocate to the impossibly sumptuous estate of a Russian mogul. You know all the while that there's a parched, nasty world out there, just waiting to correct their follies, and that the consolations of love and sex and art, which Smiley endorses all through this lovely book, won't really protect them. But our author lives up to her name in the best way. She blesses those people, shortcomings...
...dreamt." (This is a paraphrase of Dhirubhai's maxim, "Only when you dream it can you do it," not to mention The Rocky Horror Show's "Don't dream it, be it.") We flash back to Gurukant's youth in a Gujurat village, then follow the mogul's progress, with some Bollywood embellishments: his marriage to Sujatha (Rai) - at first for her $25,000 dowry, then for love - and his fraternal devotion to a feisty crippled girl, Meenu (Vidya Balan), who will grow up to marry Shyam (Madhavan), the very muckraking reporter who's determined to bring Gurukant down...
DIED. Ahmet Ertegun, 83, singularly influential music mogul who in 1947 founded Atlantic Records, the label that launched seminal acts that included Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Otis Redding (who called him Omelet), Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler and Cream; in New York City. The Turkish-born son of a diplomat, he fell in love with jazz in his youth, and as a teenager amassed a collection of 15,000 records. A hands-on producer, occasional songwriter, tireless talent scout and mentor to many of his artists, Ertegun--who started with a $10,000 loan from his dentist--popularized soul and later...
What do Larry Summers, Gap CEO Paul Pressler, and personal computer mogul Michael Dell all have in common? Pressler may be better dressed, and Dell, with a net worth estimated at $17.1 billion, is a whole lot wealthier than the former Harvard president. But all three men have made BusinessWeek magazine’s “worst of” 2006 list. In its current issue, the weekly says Summers, who jumped from Treasury secretary in the Clinton White House to the top job at Mass. Hall, is the “worst crossover” of the year...
...were forced to leave behind in 2005 when they departed the Walt Disney Co. after 12 colorful years. In Harvey's final scene, the two snag back the name from the media giant, which has turned Miramax into a dclass, financially diminished Mouse brand. Harvey, the brash movie mogul who helped spin the low-budget indie-film trade into a booming business, doesn't need more wealth. And he's not pushing for another Academy Award. He won the hardware in 1999 for producing Shakespeare in Love, and he has marketed pictures that have scored nearly 60 other Oscars...