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In other media matters, intervention by Canada's ruling Liberal Party has delayed conservative newspaper magnate Conrad Black's elevation to Britain's House of Lords.
Dispatched to the south of Italy by a magnate named Greenleaf seeking the return of his wastrel son Dickie (Jude Law), the working-class Ripley has to pretend he's an old Princeton classmate.
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.
Early reviews offered high praise for Milos Forman's loving portrait of the pornography magnate, but recent articles in the New York Times and the New Republic point out that the film's hero, the publisher of Hustler , actually was a racist, misogynistic scum bag.
The oil magnate's museum for European art expands its collection and moves to a new campus--"the most expensive art complex in American history" (Robert Hughes, Time ). Modernist architect Richard Meier's eclectic buildings, which echo Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, receive mostly raves.