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...satire of a former criminal turned media star - so prescient about the distorting mirror of reality TV - and Wildest Dreams (1991), his chilling black comedy about addicts of a Dungeons & Dragons - style fantasy game who lose touch with real life. Then the wait, often in vain, for a New York City production (his work turns up more often in regional theaters) or the dismay of seeing it done poorly by American actors...
...Rose was not alone in voicing such concerns. A 2004 New York Times article raised questions about HMC’s advantageous relationships with firms run by former employees, and quoted then-Chief Executive Jack R. Meyer as saying the special agreements had yielded $125 million in savings for the University up to that point...
...Borbón, a cousin of Spain's King Juan Carlos, great-grandson of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and a legitimate heir to the non-existent throne of France. They were married at Vargas' palatial mansion in the Dominican Republic, a wedding that was catered by New York's exclusive Le Cirque restaurant and included 1,000 guests...
...although Vargas enjoys conspicuous wealth in the U.S., his banking career in the country has met obstacles. In 1993 he paid the Federal Reserve Bank of New York $1.5 million in fines after it determined Vargas had lied about his knowledge of fraud that executives had committed at a bank he was in the process of acquiring. (As part of his settlement with the Reserve Bank, he didn't have to admit guilt.) Today, Vargas cannot invest in U.S. banks without government permission. Still, the incident doesn't seem to have put much of a dent in his personal worth...
...Gavin's first wife, Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former lingerie model, was a lawyer and correspondent for Court TV based in New York City. (Earlier, Newsom had briefly dated the singer Jewel.) Shortly after Newsom was elected to his first term, he and Guilfoyle appeared together in a Harper's Bazaar magazine spread - the publication declared them "The New Kennedys." But the couple divorced in 2005, saying the strain of a bi-coastal relationship was too hard...