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Kurt Andersen (actor)
Kurt Andersen (born August 22, 1954) is an American writer, the author of novels and nonfiction as well as a writer for television and the theater. He was also a co-founder of ''Spy'' magazine, as well as co-creator and for its 20-year run host of the weekly Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast '' Studio 360''. Early life and education Andersen was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Growing up, he lived across the street from Ginni Thomas. He graduated from Westside High School. While a student at Harvard College, he was an editor and vice-president of the '' Harvard Lampoon''. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Journalism In 1986, with E. Graydon Carter and Thomas L. Phillips Jr., he co-founded ''Spy''. In ''Spy'', Andersen and Carter in 1988 coined the notable epithet "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump" for the future U.S. president. "It's pretty safe to say," author Dave Eggers wrote in the mid-1990s, "that ''Spy'' was the most influential magazin ...
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Peabody Award
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media. The awards were conceived by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1938 as the radio industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes. Programs are recognized in seven categories: news, entertainment, documentaries, children's programming, education, interactive programming, and public service. Peabody Award winners include radio and television stations, networks, online media, producing organizations, and individuals from around the world. Established in 1940 by a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Peabody Award was created to honor excellence in radio broadcasting. It is the oldest major electronic media award in the United States. Final Peabody Award winners are selected unanimously by the prog ...
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The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ...
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Michael Wolff (journalist)
Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953) is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to ''USA Today'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', and the UK edition of '' GQ''. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including ''Burn Rate'' (1998) about his own dot-com company, and ''The Man Who Owns the News'' (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of ''Adweek''. On January 5, 2018, Wolff's book '' Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' was published, containing unflattering descriptions of behavior by U.S. President Donald Trump, chaotic interactions among the White House senior staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. The book quickly became a ''New York Times'' number-one bestseller and became the first of a trilogy about Trump in power, the other two books being ''Siege'' (201 ...
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Inside
Inside may refer to: * Insider, a member of any group of people of limited number and generally restricted access Film * ''Inside'' (1996 film), an American television film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Eric Stoltz * ''Inside'' (2002 film), a Canadian prison drama film * ''Inside'' (2006 film), an American thriller film starring Nicholas D'Agosto and Leighton Meester * ''Inside'' (2007 film), originally ''À l'intérieur'', a French horror film directed by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury ** ''Inside'' (2016 film), a 2016 Spanish-American film remake of the 2007 film * ''Inside'' (2011 film), an American social film * ''Inside'' (2012 film), an American horror film * ''Inside'' (2013 film), a Turkish drama film * '' Bo Burnham: Inside'', a 2021 American comedy special * ''Inside'' (2023 film), an upcoming film starring Willem Dafoe Television * "Inside" (''American Horror Story''), an episode of the tenth season of ''American Horror Story'' Music Albums * ' ...
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Lazard
Lazard Ltd (formerly known as Lazard Frères & Co.) is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's largest independent investment bank, with principal executive offices in New York City, Paris and London. Lazard was founded in 1848 and operates from more than 41 cities across 26 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America. The firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals. In 2023, Lazard celebrates its 175th year in business. History Early Years On July 12, 1848, three brothers, Alexandre Lazard, Lazare Lazard, and Simon Lazard, founded Lazard Frères & Co. as a dry goods merchant store in New ...
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Steven Rattner
Steven Lawrence Rattner (born July 5, 1952) is a New York investment asset manager who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry in 2009."Rattner to Serve as Lead Adviser on Auto Bailout"
by Michael J. de la Merced and , ''The New York Times'' "DealBook", Feb. 23, 2009.
He is currently chairman and chief executive officer of Willett Advisors LLC, the private investment firm that manages billionaire former New York mayor ' ...
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Felix Rohatyn
Felix George Rohatyn ( ; May 29, 1928 – December 14, 2019) was an American investment banker and diplomat. He spent most of his career with Lazard, where he brokered numerous large corporate mergers and acquisitions from the 1960s through the 1990s. In 1975, he played a central role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City as chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation and chief negotiator between the city, its labor unions and its creditors. Rohatyn later became an outspoken advocate for rebuilding America's infrastructure, working with politicians and business leaders to craft guiding principles for strengthening infrastructure as co-chair of the Commission on Public Infrastructure. Rohatyn was involved in efforts to form a national infrastructure bank, and assisted in the rebuilding of New York City following Hurricane Sandy as co-chair of the New York State 2100 Commission. From 1997 to 2000, Rohatyn served as United States Ambassador to France. Early life ...
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
KKR & Co. Inc., also known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., is an American global investment company that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strategic partners, hedge funds. , the firm had completed more than 650 private equity investments in portfolio companies with approximately $675 billion of total enterprise value. , assets under management ("AUM") and fee paying assets under management ("FPAUM") were $471 billion and $357 billion, respectively. The firm was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts, all of whom had previously worked together at Bear Stearns, where they completed some of the earliest leveraged buyout transactions. Since its founding, KKR has completed a number of transactions, including the 1989 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, which was the largest buyout in history to that point, as well as the 200 ...
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Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Henry Kravis
September 2015
He is the co-founder of KKR & Co. Inc. Kravis is a Republican who has supported a variety of causes and made significant donations to both parties, including a contribution of $1 million to 's . His lavish lifestyle has b ...
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New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'', it was brasher and less polite, and established itself as a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles on American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. In its 21st-century incarnation under editor-in-chief Adam Moss, "The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city—at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense", wrote then-''Washington Post'' media critic Howard Kurtz, as the magazine increasingly published political and cultural stories of national significance. Since its redesign and relaunch in 2004, the magazine has won more National Mag ...
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Time Magazine
''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been published by Time USA, LLC, owned by Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. History ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two ...
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Gene Shalit
Eugene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American retired journalist, television personality, film and book critic and author. After starting to work part-time on NBC's ''The Today Show'' in 1970, he filled those roles from January 15, 1973, until retiring on November 11, 2010. He is known for his frequent use of puns, his oversized handlebar moustache and fuzzy hair, and for wearing colorful bowties. Early life and education Shalit was born in New York City and raised in Newark and Morristown, New Jersey. In high school he wrote a humor column for the school newspaper, which Gannett has identified as "The Korn Krib". Shalit is of Jewish ancestry. Shalit wrote for ''The Daily Illini'' for six years at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1943–1949). Career Shalit, according to a ''New York Times Magazine'' interview of Dick Clark, was Clark's press agent in the early 1960s. Shalit reportedly "stopped representing" Clark during a Congressional investigation o ...
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