Peter Dvorsky
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbarians at the Gate recounts the events surrounding the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, the biggest history at the time, and widely considered to be a textbook example of corporate and executive greed. This story of high stakes, betrayal, and one-upsmanship begins when RJR Nabisco's CEO F. Ross Johnson chooses to buy out his own company to deflect shareholder backlash when an expensive project fails. This attempt ignites a power struggle...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Cilea's four-act opera of jealousy and tangled love, first performed in Milan in 1902, is based on the true story of Adriana Lecouvreur, an 18th-century actress at the Comédie Française, whose rival for the love of Maurizio, Count of Saxony, is the married Principessa di Bouillon."--Container.