Word: roberts
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Since Sept. 8, chairman and chief executive Robert Toll has unloaded more than 4.3 million shares and pocketed at least $82.5 million in pretax net proceeds, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. At least two other insiders - director Bruce Toll and president Zvi Barzilay - have also been selling: Bruce Toll sold 352,433 shares, netting proceeds of about $7.5 million, while Barzilay dumped 200,000 shares for net proceeds of about $3.5 million, the filings reported. In some but not all cases, the insiders sold shares they had acquired through stock options that were to expire...
...Robert Toll's sell-off that rattled analysts and investors the most, as many recall how Toll in 2005 sold off large blocks of shares in his company just as the homebuilding sector was peaking. Toll is viewed as a seasoned and savvy executive with an extraordinary knack for recognizing trends early...
...Producers and Mamma Mia! showed that theatergoers preferred perky, gaudy, old-fashioned musical comedies. But Kristina should find a constituency among those who love hearing wonderful music sung by gifted voices. If any naughty folks last night recorded the show, they should immediately post some of its instant classics: Robert's devastating solo "Gold Can Turn to Sand," the rollicking girl-group number "American Man," the anthemish "Summer Rose" and a whole sheaf of romantic duets, the most memorable of which is Kristina's and Karl-Oskar's "I'll Be Waiting There." Not to bring the show...
...just another tough guy, wise-ass and cocksure, and figure that star acting is something that lucky people are born with and get well paid for. But think of some signal films of the past decade or so: Pulp Fiction, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, Robert Rodriguez's Sin City. The Die Hard series, for that matter. At the center, there's Willis, playing men wracked with more psychic pain than they could ever dish...
...Supreme Court next week. In the case, Jones et al. v. Harris Associates, several mutual fund investors charged that the fund had overpaid its advisors. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago dismissed a full court rehearing of the lawsuit in May 2008. Law professors John C. Coates, Robert C. Clark, Allen Ferrell, and J. Mark Ramseyer signed an amicus brief earlier this month in support of the defendant, Harris Associates, along with more than 20 other corporate law and finance professors. According to Coates, the brief agrees with Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook?...