"My business pretty much ran into a wall on Lehman Brothers Day," he told me.
The brothers' day job is running Station Casinos, a $912 million (2001 revenues), second-generation, off-the-Strip casino operator that caters more to Las Vegas locals than to tourists (nary a pirate ship nor a waterfall in sight).
The lasting memory from my Big Brother days is the birth and death of Jade Goody.
A little boy who laughs as he pounds his fist down on top of his sister's head, who hits and bites and kicks his brother day after day without warning or cause.
Another brother, Day, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and served as Governor of South Australia.
And after the founding brothers left day-to-day leadership of the company in 2003, the top management spot passed not to one of their children but to Frenchman and former Cartier executive Alain Viot, originally hired as brand manager.
The Wright brothers waited days for the wind to be just right, only to have the day foiled by some other unforeseen calamity.
Is that Marion Cotillard as a knackered depressive in the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night?
The new film from the Dardenne brothers, "Two Days, One Night," would make a punchy double bill with Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln".
With a similar central arc, the film works as a subtly compelling companion piece to the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night.
