Word: tycooning
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...with each other to make us think they're life-long buddies. A rhythm very influenced by Mean Streets. Bogus. DeNiro, though, is marvelous--that studied inarticulateness. DeNiro's got all the equipment to be a great stage actor--he can use his voice, if you remember The Last Tycoon. He was wonderful in that. He would have made the greatest1
Anti-Shah Iranians learned that the princess was back in town when the Queen Mother arrived clandestinely aboard an Iran air force 747. After the rioting, Queen Tajomolouk appeared at the Marriott Inn near Los Angeles International Airport. Then she and her daughter retreated to the estate of Publishing Tycoon (TV Guide) Walter Annenberg in Palm Springs, Calif. Said Annenberg about the possibility of further demonstrations against his royal guests: "If they come...
...wonders what the great Russian novelist, a master of morbid psychology, would have made of last week's strange marriage in Moscow. Would he have found a chapter in The Possessed for impulsive, dark-eyed Christina, 27, the twice-divorced, jet-setting daughter of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis? Would another Karamazov brother have emerged from his reflections on her spouse, Sergei Kauzov, 37, a former sales representative of the Soviet ship-chartering agency Sovfracht...
Littlechap is a pip-squeak who dreams of being a Pooh-Bah. Starting as "a coffee-colored coffee vendor," he manages to marry the boss's daughter (Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...
...leased, for $2.5 million a year, the Howard Johnson's Regency Motor Lodge and plans to spend $30 million on renovations and a casino that will be 50% larger than Resorts International's. The gamblers' chips may be down by early next year. Japanese Restaurant Tycoon Rocky Aoki, president of the Benihana chain, and Financier Takashi Sasakawa have leased the old Shelburne Hotel for more than $1 million a year and are rushing to remodel it into a casino by spring. Further behind is Bally Manufacturing, which has leased a baroque landmark, the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel...