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...worked with everyone from Gene Kelly to Patrick Swayze. How does Jackson compare? Patrick Swayze reminded me a lot of Gene Kelly. Patrick had that Everyman quality. Gene made dancing sort of an accessible idea for the regular guy out there. I felt Michael Jackson was inspired a little bit more from the elegance of a Fred Astaire. Michael loved Sammy Davis Jr. and James Brown and Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. But he wasn't any of those people. To be inspired is one thing, but he made...
...Alessandro has also had to sort out some tricky governance issues. The company's experience with nonfamily management hasn't been an unmitigated success. The first outside managing director, who came from automaker Fiat, served just three years before leaving, together with the chief financial officer, in 2006. A new CFO brought in from Burberry lasted just 21 months. As well as putting together a new management team, Alessandro has also sought to delineate more clearly the roles played by the family and by management. The new managing director, Gerolamo Caccia Dominioni, comes from Warner Music, while the current...
After last year's war, with his military routed, Saakashvili latched on to development as a sort of defense guarantee: "It's very uncomfortable to bomb skyscrapers. It looks very, very ugly." He said he spends 80% of his time looking for investors, cooking up projects and cheerleading for the Georgian economy...
...They’re sort of low-budget, avant-garde films,” said Everett Briggs, a cyclist who attended the event for the first time last year...
...always been a dream of mine to visit the most prestigious school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [Boooooo.] Hold on a second--certainly the most prestigious school in this part of Cambridge, Massachusetts. [POTUS redeems himself, sort of.] And I'll probably be here for a while -- I understand a bunch of engineering students put my motorcade on top of Building...