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Jarre once said that in the flush of his career, he took so many assignments because he had three ex-wives and a lot of alimony to pay. The first of his marriages produced a son, Jean-Michel Jarre, a renowned composer of electronic music. But it is Papa Maurice's "Lara's Theme" from Zhivago moviegoers recall whenever they think of snow, sleds and the ache of lost love...
...have a gay son, don't you? The gay community tried to make a thing about that a number of years...
...intended to deploy in orbit. In typical fashion, the North Korean government today lied about the satellite plunge. Its central news agency informed the citizenry that the satellite was already beaming back into North Korea "immortal revolutionary paeans to General Kim Il Sung'' - the country's founder - "and his son, General Kim Jong...
...Last June, Chais even wrote his investors a letter saying he was ill and should he get worse his son, Mark, who lives in Israel, would take over the investment business, which by my estimates handled between $500 million and $1 billion. Some were smart enough to pull out then, others, like my wife and I, continued to trust. If we pulled out, where would we put the money? In the caving stock market? In sinking real estate? In the bank? This seemed like a much safer bet, a bet that returned for over 30 years...
...great Wizard of Wall Street. He did, however, make it clear that anyone was "free to withdraw part or all of their money" at quarterly withdrawal dates, which was a nice, reassuring touch. Giving more comfort, Chais rather breezily wrote that everything would be fine, that his son, a lawyer by training and manager of a venture-capital fund, was one of "the most thoughtful and honorable men" he knew. I can only suppose he included Madoff in that group...