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Lookout sharpens focus on global co-prods: London-based banner cuts the clutter while fostering financing
VarietySimon Vaughan, CEO of London-based production-distribution outfit Lookout Point, represents television's new breed of financing specialists who are prospering amid the growing global demand for high-end programming. Lookout Point is among the co-producers...Tags: Tom Stoppard, Shingles, Les Misérables (musical), Julian Fellowes, Drama (genre)
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Rachel Marsden: Romney is dangerously naive on foreign policy
American VoicesMitt Romney appears to have all the foreign-policy savvy of someone who once visited Euro Disney, and it's freaking me out. Not to say that President Obama is any more knowledgeable on that front, but at least he seems aware of his limitations,...Tags: Government, Politics, National Government, China, United Nations
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Meryl Streep knows Margaret Thatcher's grief — and willpower
At night after she finished the day's shooting of "The Iron Lady" in London, Meryl Streep would undergo a kind of ritual. Makeup artists painstakingly removed the prosthetics that enabled Streep to play the former British prime minister in her senescent...Tags: Government, Politics, Steve Martin, London (England), Entertainment
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Screen Yorkshire bows $23.7 mil fund: U.K. regional org backs local production
VarietyLONDON -- Blighty's Screen Yorkshire has announced a £15 million ($23.7 million) content fund for TV, film, games and digital sectors within the Yorkshire and Humber area. The fund, dubbed Yorkshire Content Fund, has secured ($11.8 million) of investment...Tags: Paddy Considine, Credit Ratings, London (England)
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Aon deal faces several risks
Tribune reporterAs an insurance brokerage, Aon Corp. knows all about risks. But its planned headquarters move from Chicago to London later this year is fraught with a number of potential uncertainties, for both the company and for its shareholders. A spokesman for...Tags: Politics, Aon Corporation, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, London (England)
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Official: Renault chops UK lineup in half
Autoblog.comFiled under: Renault, UK Renault has a wide array of products in its portfolio. In its home market it offers a baker's dozen model lines, and when you get down to bodystyles the range ratchets up past 20. While we don't get any of them in North America,... -
British court rules radical preacher should be freed on bail
World NowBritish court frees radical Islamist on bail; British authorities still struggling to keep Abu Qatada in jail... -
Aon says fight with IRS, other risks possible in move to London
As an insurance brokerage,Aon Corp.knows all about risks.
Its planned headquarters move from Chicago to London this year is fraught with uncertainties, for both the company and its shareholders, company filings show.
Aon's rationale for moving...Tags: Business Enterprises, Politics, Aon Corporation, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation
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Secret Weapon coaster to debut at U.K.'s Alton Towers in 2013
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEngland's Alton Towers is set to unleash the latest salvo in its arsenal of Secret Weapon roller coasters in March 2013 with the addition of a $25-million "world's first" ride aimed squarely at thrill-seekers. PHOTOS: Secret Weapon 7 (SW7) coaster at...Tags: Weaponry, World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Universal Studios Orlando
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Cultural Exchange: 'EuroCrash!' laughs in the face of financial meltdown
In Europe, seeing the ministers and heads of state doing their song-and-dance routines over how best to resolve the long-running financial crisis might be commonplace, but for a brief engagement at a Berlin playhouse, that spectacle would at least offer...Tags: Government, Politics, Berlin (Germany), London (England), Entertainment
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Anonymous hacks FBI conference call on cyber pirates
The computer hacking group Anonymous took gleeful pride Friday in announcing that it had sneaked onto a conference call between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and foreign law enforcement agencies concerning how to deal with the cyber-pirate...Tags: Dan Quayle, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Computer Crime, FBI
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U.K. family comes to OK for southern hospitality
KFOR-TVOKLAHOMA CITY -- A family from England came to Oklahoma last year in a desperate attempt to save their daughter's life. She was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer and doctors in the U.K. sent them to our state for medical help. Now, her family...Tags: Human Body, Cancer, Brain, Health
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