Few people would be happy to give up their iPhones for seeing one less zillionaire.
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After the brief marriage, Perkins himself wrote a novel: "Sex and the Single Zillionaire," published in 2006.
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"If you're a zillionaire who owns a newspaper, yeah, they're going to go after you," said Lewis.
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Zillionaire Empress Berhane is the self-proclaimed richest person on the planet and claims to be related to Haile Selassie.
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They're useful in their own way, as a picture of how Mr. Burnett buttressed the future president's Potemkin-zillionaire image.
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Her globe-traveling zillionaire father (Dominic West) disappeared years ago while chasing down a Japanese goddess of death or some such.
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The complication is that the guy is an enormous jerk (James Franco), a Silicon Valley zillionaire who was too busy getting rich to develop any social filters.
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Among the tech zillionaire classes, a place to bug out in the event of an economic collapse, environmental disaster or violent uprising became the thing to have.
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Why doesn't some oppressed zillionaire come up with a disruptive algorithm to calculate how much money it would take to fix all this, and then cut a check?
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That lifestyle was the backdrop to one of several books he wrote, a novel titled "Sex and the Single Zillionaire" (2006), which featured a yacht on its cover.
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Over the past decade, he's worked to serially reinvent the online payments, aerospace and solar power industries, and has been compared to Marvel's Iron Man genius/zillionaire Tony Stark.
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He also showed a covetable paneled jacket that resembled a zillionaire version of something a character from George Lucas's '70s classic "American Graffiti" might have worn to Mel's Drive-In.
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Similarly, if a smooth Indianan in Pete Buttigieg and a cheerful Minnesotan in Amy Klobuchar can't peel moderates away from Biden in Iowa, can a grouchy New York zillionaire really expect to pull it off weeks later?
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Originally published privately in Australia, the E. L. James "Fifty Shades" trilogy, with its saga of a nice college girl giving herself over to the S &M predilections of a tormented (but gorgeous) zillionaire, has sold over 125 million copies in half a dozen years.
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" It's the kind of conference any half-sane person would dread, but Rich, whose sanity is occasionally questionable, is actually looking forward to it this year — the previous summer, he began an affair with an art student named Amy, a married woman and an "emotionally stunted zillionaire.
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Every time an ordinary user upgrades their smartphone, every time they see a Tesla in autopilot mode or another movie featuring an instant Internet zillionaire — every time software eats another morsel of their world — they are reminded that they are muggles, and that the Ministry of Magic is growing stronger ever day.
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Yarritu's only credited role in the production of How to Be a ... Zillionaire! was providing spoken passages on some tracks. He and Eden (Fiona Russell Powell) were hired for ABC's Zillionaire! era mainly for their unconventional look onstage and in videos.
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"Zillionaire" is a song by American rapper Flo Rida, released on July 29, 2016 in the United States. Remixes followed September 16, 2016.
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"Vanity Kills" is a song by English new wave and synth-pop band ABC, released as the third single from their third studio album, How to Be a ... Zillionaire! It peaked at No. 70 on the UK Singles Chart and reached No. 91 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
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How to Be a ... Zillionaire! is the third studio album by English pop band ABC. It was originally released in October 1985, on the labels Neutron, Mercury and Vertigo. The album peaked at No. 28 on the UK Albums Chart and at No. 30 on the Billboard 200.
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David Yarritu is an American musician and photographer. He was best known for his short stint as a member of the English new wave band ABC in the 1980s. He was featured in several music videos from the band's How to Be a ... Zillionaire! album, including "Be Near Me" (1985).
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In the original music video, a security guard is seeing a parody of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? called "Who Wants to Be a Zillionaire?", where a contestant is given the zillion dollar question "Who let the dogs out?". Then, the dogs in the video escape from a doggie day care center.
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Fiona Russell Powell (born 2 April 1962) is a British journalist. She is best known for her series of interviews throughout the 1980s in The Face magazine. For a brief period in the mid-1980s, she performed as a member of pop group ABC in videos and onstage to support their cartoon-synth album How to Be a ... Zillionaire! (1985). She performed under the stage name "Eden".
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Upon learning he's still not a second-class zillionaire, he goes to South Africa to meet Glomgold and check on his title as the world's richest duck. He takes Donald and his nephews along with him stating that, if he loses, he'll need them to carry him. With a list of all of his possessions and his string ball, Scrooge and co. take one of his ships to Africa.
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Between 1982 and 1991, ABC recorded six studio albums (The Lexicon of Love, Beauty Stab, How to Be a ... Zillionaire!, Alphabet City, Up and Abracadabra) and released a greatest hits compilation album, Absolutely. Together with Fry, White co-wrote and produced a couple of songs on Paul Rutherford's 1989 solo album Oh World, including the single "Get Real". During this time, the band went through numerous personnel changes, with White and Fry being its only permanent members.
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Martin Craft went on to have a successful solo career under his own name and is currently working as a producer and songwriter. His albums include I Can See It All Tonight (2004), Silver and Fire (2006) and Arrows at the Sun (2008). He also plays as a touring member in Jarvis Cocker's band. Nick Craft formed The Zillions and released the albums Zig-Zag Zillionaire (2005) and Zeuxis: Xight Zeen (2008), as well as music for theatre soundtracks.
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"Be Near Me" is a song by English new wave and synth-pop band ABC. It was released in April 1985 as the second single from their third studio album, How to Be a ... Zillionaire! It peaked at No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart in 1985, and was the only single from the album to reach the UK Top 40. It was more successful in the United States where it reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Brickman is a humour comic strip and character created by UK cartoonist Lew Stringer. A parody of Batman, the spoof features the adventures of zillionaire Loose Brayne and his partner Tina Trowel who fight crime in Guffon City, fighting villains such as the Poker, the Mad Cobbler and Gnat-Woman. The strip's humour uses heavy amounts of puns, sight gags and absurdism. The strip began in the fanzine After Image No.3 in 1979, before moving on to other small press fanzines and minicomics.
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"(How to Be A) Millionaire" is a song by English new wave and synth-pop band ABC. It was the first single taken from their third studio album, How to Be a ... Zillionaire! The single peaked at a modest No. 49 on the UK Singles Chart, though it fared better in the US where it reached No. 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. The CBS Orchestra played the song for Regis Philbin when he was a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.
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Sam's efforts to resist the gold-digging infatuation are in vain; he digs and indeed finds tons of gold. ("I'm a zillionaire!" he gloats.) Tragically, it turns out that Sam has been digging up the United States Gold Reserve in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He is hauled off to the stockade by a couple of Military Policemen, while Bugs bids him farewell ("See you in 20 years, Sam!"). Then a third Military Policeman asks Bugs what he is doing here; Bugs nervously explains that he is waiting for a streetcar.
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On March 24, 2016, he released the promotional single "Who's With Me". On July 29, 2016, Flo Rida released "Zillionaire", that was featured in the trailer for Masterminds.. Flo Rida was also featured on Liz Elias' single "At Night" as well as on Pitbull's single "Greenlight", included in Pitbull's tenth album Climate Change. In early 2017, Flo Rida's track "Cake" featuring Bay Area rap duo 99 Percent went viral with the trending #CakeChallenge dance, and the song reached No. 77 on the Hot 100. On November 17, 2017, Flo Rida released another single "Hola" featuring Colombian singer/songwriter Maluma.
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"Ocean Blue" is a song by English new wave and synth-pop band ABC, released as the fourth single from their third studio album, How to Be a ... Zillionaire! The song peaked at No. 51 on the UK Singles Chart; the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was the only single from the album not to chart on the Hot 100; their next single to chart there would be "When Smokey Sings" the following year. The single version was remixed by Julian Mendelsohn with a drum-track by David Palmer and a string-arrangement by Anne Dudley after the release of the album.
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The aim was to be as luridly bright and "cartoony" as possible. The new look ABC went over well enough; in the UK and the US How To Be a Zillionaire charted in the top 30, while "Be Near Me" was the highest-charting track off the album at No. 26 in the UK, in the Top Ten on the US Billboard Hot 100. Two much-talked-about Eden incidents: Eden wore a dildobelt she made on The Tube, the 1980s Channel 4 live music show, which was a belt covered in "ladyfingers" – very small white dildoes – to look like a bullet belt. The B-side of "How To Be a Millionaire" has a track called "A to Z" which introduces all the band members.
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Alphabet City is the fourth studio album by English pop band ABC. It was originally released in October 1987, on the labels Mercury, Phonogram and Neutron, two years after their previous album How to Be a ... Zillionaire! Following a hiatus in which singer Martin Fry was being treated for Hodgkin's disease, it was recorded over a period of nine months between November 1986 and August 1987, in sessions that took place at Marcus Recording Studios in London, assisted by Bernard Edwards, best known for his work with the American band Chic. The album's title and the titles of several tracks were inspired by the Alphabet City section of Manhattan, New York City, where Fry and Mark White lived for a time prior to the album's release.
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