BP boss Lord Browne was forced to quit yesterday after lying about a gay affair with a lover less than half his age.
Lord
Browne, 59 - who worked for the oil giant for 41 years and was due to
retire in just two months - misses out on a £15million pay-off.
Lord Browne, who split up
with Chevalier last year, resigned from oil giant BP after losing a
legal fight to stop his ex-lover telling of their life together. He had
previously won an injunction banning a newspaper from printing the
embarrassing kiss and tell revelations.
But
it was lifted yesterday after the millionaire admitted he had lied to
the High Court about how he met Chevalier. Lord Browne said they first
met in London's Battersea Park when in fact they made contact through a
gay website.
He was named Britain's most admired business leader from 1999 to 2002.
He was one of the first company directors to be paid more than
£1million a year. Tony Blair knighted him in 2001 and his relationship
with No10 grew so close the firm was dubbed Blair Petroleum. But now that is all over and BP for him will always stand for Butt Pain... :-)
BP boss Lord Browne was forced to quit yesterday after lying about a gay affair with a lover less than half his age.
Lord
Browne, 59 - who worked for the oil giant for 41 years and was due to
retire in just two months - misses out on a £15million pay-off.
Lord Browne, who split up
with Chevalier last year, resigned from oil giant BP after losing a
legal fight to stop his ex-lover telling of their life together. He had
previously won an injunction banning a newspaper from printing the
embarrassing kiss and tell revelations.
But
it was lifted yesterday after the millionaire admitted he had lied to
the High Court about how he met Chevalier. Lord Browne said they first
met in London's Battersea Park when in fact they made contact through a
gay website.
He was named Britain's most admired business leader from 1999 to 2002.
He was one of the first company directors to be paid more than
£1million a year. Tony Blair knighted him in 2001 and his relationship
with No10 grew so close the firm was dubbed Blair Petroleum. But now that is all over and BP for him will always stand for Butt Pain... :-)
After just anybody read it I thought I couldn't be the only one left not reading it so I brought The shadow in the wind from Carlos Ruiz Zafon with me to Mallorca. It is a nice story very well written with a nice character set and sometimes a suspense storyline. I have to be very careful not to read these kind of books all at once so I have put myself on a ration of not more then 150 pages a day. The story plays in Barcelona which I know a little and the Spanish environment helps to feel emerged in the story.
After just anybody read it I thought I couldn't be the only one left not reading it so I brought The shadow in the wind from Carlos Ruiz Zafon with me to Mallorca. It is a nice story very well written with a nice character set and sometimes a suspense storyline. I have to be very careful not to read these kind of books all at once so I have put myself on a ration of not more then 150 pages a day. The story plays in Barcelona which I know a little and the Spanish environment helps to feel emerged in the story.
The guys at Sony came up with a novel idea: Minisodes (=mini episodes) of classic television series like Charlies Angels. In the ’70s , Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith took
a half-hour to solve a crime. Now, in“minisodes,” they do it in
3 minutes. That’s the length Sony has shrunk episodes down to in order to create
what the
company hopes is an appealing new business in retooling old
shows for a new era of entertainment. As Steve Mosko, the president of Sony Television, described it, “So in
‘Charlie Angels,’ they have a meeting, Charlie’s on the intercom
telling them what the assignment is, there’s a couple of fights, and
then a chase, and they catch the bad guy. Then they’re back home
wrapping it up.”
The plan gained traction when Sony executives saw the
“Seven-Minute Sopranos,” a condensation of the 77-hour HBO series that
was posted on YouTube last March.
I guess the plot of the Charlies Angels is so thin if Sony wants they can produce 30" episodes...
Let's wait for the my dream: The Ring of Wagner in 10 minutes (sorry Eddie)
The guys at Sony came up with a novel idea: Minisodes (=mini episodes) of classic television series like Charlies Angels. In the ’70s , Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith took
a half-hour to solve a crime. Now, in“minisodes,” they do it in
3 minutes. That’s the length Sony has shrunk episodes down to in order to create
what the
company hopes is an appealing new business in retooling old
shows for a new era of entertainment. As Steve Mosko, the president of Sony Television, described it, “So in
‘Charlie Angels,’ they have a meeting, Charlie’s on the intercom
telling them what the assignment is, there’s a couple of fights, and
then a chase, and they catch the bad guy. Then they’re back home
wrapping it up.”
The plan gained traction when Sony executives saw the
“Seven-Minute Sopranos,” a condensation of the 77-hour HBO series that
was posted on YouTube last March.
I guess the plot of the Charlies Angels is so thin if Sony wants they can produce 30" episodes...
Let's wait for the my dream: The Ring of Wagner in 10 minutes (sorry Eddie)
