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The ingenuous Harford and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), attend a lavish Christmas party thrown by the magnate Ziegler (Pollack), in which both are sexually propositioned.
Consider the recent announcement that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's current owners--billionaire Kirk Kerkorian and Australian media magnate Kerry Stokes--will offer 12.
Or the mulatto barber and real estate magnate of antebellum Natchez (I can't remember his name, but remember, my books are in storage).
I was practically weeping--weeping, I tell you--when I read the excerpt from the letter the former, great publisher of the Los Angeles Times wrote, castigating Mark H. Willes, chairman and chief executive of Times Mirror Co., and company for the sheer, unmitigated crap (my paraphrasing here) the ex-cereal magnate has been pulling since he took over the now hapless paper.
In the Sunday Telegraph , interviewer Helena de Bertodano said that her first meeting with Brown had been "tense" because a "PR magnate, an elderly man with a cut-glass English accent" had insisted on sitting in on their conversation but that Brown subsequently arranged a one-on-one meeting for the next day.