David Siegel News
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“A smirk and a cheesy one-liner?,” sneers a villainess during some finely choreographed mayhem in Shane Black’s “Iron Man 3.”
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The San Francisco International Film Festival, the longest-running in North America, rolled out its programming lineup yesterday for the 56th edition of the two- week moviegoing marathon.
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Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s experimental drug carfilzomib shrank the tumors of one-third of study patients with multiple myeloma, a deadly blood cancer. The company’s shares surged the most in four months in New York trading.
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Republic Airways Holdings Inc. said its Frontier Airlines business may begin operating as a separate company in six to 12 months, without specifying whether that would happen through a sale or a spinoff.
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Countrywide Financial Corp. investors, led by a group of New York retirement funds, agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for more than $600 million, a person familiar with the case said.
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Former Countrywide Financial Corp. Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo and ex-Chief Operating Officer David Sambol agreed to $6.5 million settlement to resolve a predatory lending lawsuit filed by California.
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From the high-finance suspense of “Arbitrage,” which Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions reportedly purchased for $2.5 million, to a slew of angry, man- the-ramparts documentaries, some of the Sundance Film Festival’s most buzz-worthy films tapped into the country’s financial stress and social unrest.
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Jackie Siegel, the busty, Botoxed trophy wife who steals Lauren Greenfield’s irresistible documentary “The Queen of Versailles,” recalls a family vacation taken after her billionaire husband’s time-share empire went south.
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Raj Rajaratnam wants jurors at his insider-trading trial told that he was a professional stock analyst who broke no laws by speaking to corporate insiders as he worked to “ferret out” information.
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Business leaders, who generally didn’t support President Barack Obama’s policies in the past four years or his re-election bid, weren’t in a more-gracious mood after the results were in. Today’s decline in the U.S. stock markets, the biggest since June, didn’t help.
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