Recently I was offered a position for which I am grossly under qualified. Ridiculously so, in fact. The benefit to me would be a pay raise of approximately 50%.
The two-bit distortions in "A Million Little Pieces" that landed squirming memoirist James Frey on Oprah Winfrey's couch of shame last year were chump change compared with the million-dollar lies served up by Clifford Irving some 35 years ago.
German entrepreneur Michael Gleissner founded an online bookseller long before consumers knew about the Internet, started a web-hosting company ahead of the dot-com crash, and even dabbled in the h...
You won't get rich watching movies, but you can learn some valuable financial lessons. After all, money--coveting it, stealing it, losing it--has propelled the plots of countless films over the pas...
In his day, Howard Hughes was as big a heartthrob as Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars as Hughes in the Oscar-nominated "The Aviator." Hollywood folklore links Hughes with an amazing array of leading ladies, including Bette Davis, Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth and Ginger Rogers.
THE NEW MARTIN SCORSESE EPIC, The Aviator, portrays Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, as an eccentric genius. Beating the world record of fastest flight around the globe and buying TWA (u...
Recently I was offered a position for which I am grossly under qualified. Ridiculously so, in fact. The benefit to me would be a pay raise of approximately 50%.
The two-bit distortions in "A Million Little Pieces" that landed squirming memoirist James Frey on Oprah Winfrey's couch of shame last year were chump change compared with the million-dollar lies served up by Clifford Irving some 35 years ago.
German entrepreneur Michael Gleissner founded an online bookseller long before consumers knew about the Internet, started a web-hosting company ahead of the dot-com crash, and even dabbled in the h...
You won't get rich watching movies, but you can learn some valuable financial lessons. After all, money--coveting it, stealing it, losing it--has propelled the plots of countless films over the pas...
In his day, Howard Hughes was as big a heartthrob as Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars as Hughes in the Oscar-nominated "The Aviator." Hollywood folklore links Hughes with an amazing array of leading ladies, including Bette Davis, Gene Tierney, Rita Hayworth and Ginger Rogers.
THE NEW MARTIN SCORSESE EPIC, The Aviator, portrays Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, as an eccentric genius. Beating the world record of fastest flight around the globe and buying TWA (u...
"The Aviator" is the perfect melding of talent and material. Who could be better than director Martin Scorsese to bring the story of Howard Hughes' Hollywood years to the big screen? Scorsese is not only a certified genius in the art of filmmaking, he's also one of the world's foremost film historians.
The long-running joke about Hughes Electronics (HS, $17), owner of DirecTV, the country's largest satellite-TV service, with 12 million subscribers, was that it was lost in space. Formed in 1932 to...
Howard Hughes may have been a little mad by the end of his life, but he certainly knew what made the public's juices flow. It wasn't money, though he amassed plenty of that in his varied pursuits, ...
Her fame still fresh from Queen of Outer Space, Zsa Zsa Gabor was the most glamorous guest at Ocean Club's opening in 1962. The party was thrown by A&P heir Huntington Hartford, who wanted to give ...
Katharine Hepburn somersaulted into the pool here; Marilyn Monroe romanced Yves Montand here; Howard Hughes, sitting naked under a light bulb, signed away ownership of TWA here; Neil Simon brought ...
If Howard Hughes is remembered at all today, he is recalled as a real head case. Perhaps that's not surprising for someone who spent his early years chasing Hollywood actresses and crashing airplan...
Just look at this table heaped with the fruits of plenty! What a beautiful spread! Doesn't it make your mouth water? Ready to dig in? Well, hold on a minute, brothers and sisters. Bow your heads. L...
In the real world, the highly successful corporate executives we love usually share certain characteristics. All are hard driving, often at others' expense. All maintain their personal instrument w...
Ever have one of those days when you think the people you work for are just plain nuts? Relax. If there's one point that Jan Pottker demonstrates in Crisis in Candyland (National Press, $23.95), it...
Fortune rarely invokes the phrase "Fortune 50." Others use it all the time. In advertising, it denotes the companies that own the world's best brands--Coke and Pepsi, to name two. In banking, the F...
Been at the beach just long enough to miss the office? Hanker for some downtown soot in your eye, a bus whose tailpipe perfumes the night with attar of catarrh? Then grab a copy of Scott Turow's fi...
He fishes, surfs, kayaks, and climbs mountains. But does Yvon Chouinard, 54, know how to run a $117 million company? The founder and owner of Patagonia, maker of top-end outdoorsy wear, recently st...
Robert Campeau and Nero -- together, on the same card! What connection could these two possibly have? First, says Stanley Bing, author of Crazy Bosses (William Morrow, $20), both were bosses. Secon...
STAY-AT-HOME PHONE The reclusive Howard Hughes would have loved it. Now you can pay bills, shop, and order groceries from home with a wave of the light pen that comes with ScanFone by US Order of H...
At the height of the Cold War, U.S. intelligence analysts studying spy satellite photos spotted a strange aircraft that appeared to be skimming the surface of the Caspian Sea at 500 mph. Three hund...
Hispanic inmates who say their jail food is too bland ((have filed)) a lawsuit . . . The suit, brought by attorney Tom F. Maniscalo on behalf of Hispanic inmates at the Orange County Jail, argues t...
The line outside Loews New York Twin on a Sunday afternoon stretches several hundred yards from the theater, soggily testifying to the drawing power of Tucker. Most of those dripping in the 94 degr...
A thought to which this department recurrently returns like a lemming is that big-league baseball resembles the stock market. Both are random walks. Both feature a lot of streaks, and in both cases...
LOS ANGELES -- Anthony Flacco says his legal victory in gaining entry to the Women Only health club will benefit both sexes. ''The gains made in civil rights are for everybody, not just women,'' Fl...
Simon Ramo, 74, is one of the elder statesmen of U.S. high technology. He was a co-founder of two FORTUNE 500 companies. One of them was TRW, an enormously successful defense electronics concern th...
Albert Lowry. The onetime king of no-money-down real estate investing wrote the 1980 bestseller How You Can Become Financially Independent by Investing in Real Estate, but he made much of his money...
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