No lesser talents than Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger are pitching into this heady mix, the former directing the pilot and the pair co-producing.
In the case of his latest series, helmed with former directing partner and co-creator George Pelecanos, The Deuce attempts a similar scope by focusing on the theme of exploitation, whether by rightful capitalism or pure greed.
The last two are also former direct grant schools.
Wilson and Rickman worked together on stage in 1980 when the former directed the latter in a play called Commitments.
Others in the scheme, according to prosecutors, included WorldCom's former chief financial officer, Scott D. Sullivan, and the former controller, David F. Myers, Mr. Yates's former direct supervisor.
One, called the CitizeNet Reporter, was started in February by John Bailey, a White Plains resident and a former direct mail advertising copywriter and reporter for a Long Island weekly paper.
It also joins a growing band of former direct grant schools – a status abolished by Labour in its drive for comprehensive education in the 1970s – seeking to join the state sector.
Rice and Murray come with impeccable credentials: the former directed a startling reworking of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale The Red Shoes; the latter successfully tackled a stage version of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
The testimony of Mr. Kerviel's former direct superior, Eric Cordelle, was in many ways illustrative of the simple and yet intractable question underpinning the trial, which was not so much who knew about Mr. Kerviel's activities, but who could, and should, have known.
There, patrons are sorted into smoking and non-smoking parties with the former directed to a nearby porch dining area while the latter are led back, past the doors to the kitchen, to a more quiet yet nondescript room with white walls and forgettable prints.
Duffy's former direct reports Loren Kirkby and Greg Nelson will now report to Daphne Luong, "managing engineering for e-commerce, the video service and next-generation video architecture".
