And what is this mournful stretch of wall, overgrown with weeds beneath a lurid sky?

ECONOMIST: Hollywood

Not quite a decade later Mandell, 48, seems to be thriving on Wall Street, running a publicly traded firm called Sky Capital Holdings, which includes brokerages here and in the U.K. He is also chief executive of another publicly traded firm, Sky Capital Enterprises, which includes a British publisher, a medical device company and a firm that invests in homeland security businesses.

FORBES: Second Act

His cramped Houston apartment gets the point across by having no wall between the young couple and the widow, and his cross-section of a bus in front of a starry sky is visually clever.

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