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...loved studying law and the rule of law,” says Scherer, “and he’s the smartest guy I’ve ever...
...noblest solution might have been to stop using his fame. The smartest was to use his fame differently. Benjamin asked his agents to cold-call directors he respected to find out whether they would be willing to have lunch. More often than not, they were. "You just sit down at Starbucks or the Chateau Marmont--a lot of directors like to meet there--and start talking," says Benjamin. "Paul Thomas Anderson and I were tripping for hours," he says, recalling his meeting with the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia. The informal conversations covered a lot of different ground...
...August 5, CNOOC's U.S.-traded shares were at $69, compared to $55 in mid-June. From the start, Fu had always insisted that the Unocal bid had been about increasing "shareholder value." Here's the irony: not buying the U.S. firm might turn out to be the smartest move he could have made...
There are some who are below average students; there are some with health problems. And there are some who are quite extraordinary: there is the smartest teenager I think I’ve ever met, a wonderful opera singer, and great athletes among them...
...Angeles. Though he specialized in adapting popular stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Hello, Dolly! for movies in the 1960s, he achieved his greatest glory a decade earlier with the Burt Lancaster-Tony Curtis film Sweet Smell of Success and Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. Lehman never won an Oscar, but he became the first screenwriter ever awarded an honorary...