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Since the 1950s, fashion know-how has been the business of Italy and France, with the biggest, richest names emerging from Milan in the '70s to captivate people with their artistry and innovation.
Rationalise it in all the obvious ways – football clubs need all the money they can make to compete with richer names, Newcastle are seeking an honest few million pounds more rather than plunging into unsustainable debt, they are obviously not the first – yet still, when the news came out, it felt as if another sliver of football's soul had just been sold.
For others, "What's Your Number?" was tantamount to asking, "How badly do I hate my job?" Cathy James Paglia, now a director at Enterprise Asset Management in New York, says former colleagues who fell into this group at an investment bank where she once worked invented creative, expletive-rich names for the stash that would let them give their employer an unceremonious goodbye.
Then she sees a similar bottle at a party in the Los Angeles home of a businessman she met on her short trip to the Dominican Republic, a smooth rich developer named Joe Galinis who becomes a key figure in the story.
They chose one group of "rich" family names, associated with the aristocracy, such as Darcy, Percy, Mandeville and Neville, and another group of "poor" names like Delmer, Goodhill, Trevellyan and Cholmondley.
One day she met a rich man named Mully from Lublin.
No wonder the cast comically rich, with names like Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, and Philip Seymour Hoffman flocked to Anderson's call.
Ultimately the company was sold to a rich American named Alfred Taubman.
No wonder the cast — comically rich, with names like Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, and Philip Seymour Hoffman — flocked to Anderson's call.
