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...must have looked on paper. Take a dialogue-heavy, witty film (written by the urbane Nora Ephron) and cast aging teen heartthrob Luke Perry across from in-vogue Hannigan in a stage version. Financially, the combination is almost sure to succeed - Perry still has a cult following from his stint in the '90s TV soap Beverly Hills 90210, and Hannigan has guaranteed youth market appeal after American Pie and her lead role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But the play crucially falls down in the production. Too much of London's theater in recent years feels like it's derived...
...have the stereotypical head for business, but I have feet that were made for heels," says Tamara Mellon, president of Jimmy Choo and one of few women in the luxury-shoe business. In 1996, after a stint as accessories editor at British Vogue, Mellon formed a partnership with Choo, a couture shoemaker she discovered in London's East End. By 2001, Mellon, ambitious to expand the brand, had cut a deal with Equinox Luxury Holdings Ltd., which acquired Choo's share of the ready-to-wear business for $15 million (Choo still controls the couture business). Soon the brand...
...fact, thanks to a headhunter that Saint Pierre veered into the business of matchmaking. After a six-year stint in finance at Christian Dior, she was plucked to help build the fashion practice of an executive-search firm. She stayed three months before starting her own Paris-based company in 1990, at the age of 26. Fashion's swiftly revolving door is showing no signs of slowing down, and neither is Saint Pierre. French luxury powerhouses like Christian Dior and Givenchy have had to develop succession plans as their designers have retired. Iconic Italian houses will probably be next, says...
...abroad, Berlusconi manages to rise above domestic squabbling in the eyes of his supporters. Last week, he left behind the rancor in Rome and jetted off to Tripoli to meet with Muammar Gaddafi as the Libyan leader continues to seek rapprochement. It was a rare bright spot: Italy's stint as E.U. President ended on a down note in December with the failure to reach consensus on a European Constitution. And though observers say his exclusion from this week's summit should not necessarily be seen as a slap, it still leaves the Prime Minister to face the music...
...cohorts, the president fulfilled his duty with the utmost of diligence—cashing in on 82 full days of service during the Vietnam War. Apparently, as some decades-old microfiche files recently released by the White House reveal, Bush received pay for a not-quite-protracted stint of nearly three whole months of honorable service. These long days weren’t served in succession—they were peppered with various hiatuses...