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...British director David Grindley (fresh from directing Kevin Spacey in National Anthems at the Old Vic) is calling the shots for the world premiere of Some Girl(s), which opened May 24 at London's Gielgud Theatre and stars former Friend David Schwimmer as a man who, on the eve of his wedding, is compelled to have a final heart-to-heart with four ex-girlfriends. Acclaimed Venezuelan director Moisés Kaufman is handling This Is How It Goes, (which went down well in New York City and opens at the Donmar Warehouse on May 31 before moving...
Rudder describes Bishop Allen’s sound as “pop/rock” and cites Blondie as an influence. Nevertheless, tracks from Charm School like “Little Black Ache,” “Eve of Destruction,” and “Busted Heart” evoke “The Moon and Antarctica”-era Modest Mouse...
Robert Plant could have spent Feb. 12 soaking up a whole lotta love. It was the eve of the Grammy Awards and, 25 years after his legendary hard-rock band split up, Led Zeppelin was at last being honored with a statuette for lifetime achievement. Plant's surviving bandmates - guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist?keyboardist John Paul Jones - turned up crisply suited at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles. But former frontman Plant didn't show; he was 9,000 km away, getting ready for a tsunami benefit gig in Bristol, England. He sent along a video greeting instead...
Oddly, Wynn isn't very interested in gambling. His bingo-parlor-owner father, to whom Steve was reportedly close, was a compulsive gambler. On the eve of his father's cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J. (with financing from junk bonds...
...Sawiris says he met Arafat twice, once in 2000 on the eve of the failed Middle East peace summit at Camp David: "I went away from that meeting and told my father: 'This man is not going to sign anything at the summit.'" But Arafat did approve a sizable investment in Orascom. The Palestinians partnered with Orascom in Algeria and Tunisia; when the firm ran into trouble, they exchanged some of its debt for equity. In all, the Palestinians invested about $200 million in Orascom - at one point, the official Palestine Investment Fund owned 9% of the company...