Patrick Marber has adapted his own hit play, of the same name, and given the lucky director, Mike Nichols, a script that he can chew on.

NEWYORKER: Closer

"Some banks have made a fair amount of money being short the real, " says Peter Marber, president of the Trust Co. of the Atlantic, an emerging-markets fund.

FORBES: Tails, we win

Richardson went on to win a Tony award for her Broadway role as Sally Bowles in Cabaret in 1998 and a year later earned plaudits in the US premiere of Patrick Marber's play Closer.

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