#Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings

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Fincantieri: "Four Seasons I" – Ultra-Luxus auf See, Jungfernfahrt im Januar 2026

Am 23. Januar 2025 wurde das erste ultra-luxuriöse Schiff der Marke Four Seasons Yachts, die „Four Seasons I“, feierlich im Fincantieri-Werft in Ancona vom Stapel gelassen. Die Veranstaltung wurde von hochrangigen Vertretern des Schiffbauers Fincantieri sowie des Joint Ventures Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings LTD gefeiert. Die „Four Seasons I“ setzt einen neuen Maßstab für luxuriöse Kreuzfahrten und…

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Calling all luxury travelers! Four Seasons Yachts, a collaboration between Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings Ltd, and Fincantieri shipyard, has unveiled its captivating itineraries and suite designs for the highly anticipated inaugural season in 2026. Get ready to embark on a journey unlike any other, exploring the hidden gems and iconic destinations of the Caribbean and Mediterranean in unparalleled comfort and style. A Legacy of Luxury Extends to the Seas Four Seasons, renowned for its exceptional hospitality experiences, is poised to revolutionize luxury yachting. As Alejandro Reynal, President and Chief Executive Officer of Four Seasons, emphasizes: "We are excited to showcase the breathtaking destinations and world-class design awaiting guests aboard Four Seasons Yachts." This commitment to guest-centricity extends to every aspect of the yachting experience, ensuring personalized service, unparalleled comfort, and an atmosphere of pure elegance. Four Seasons Sets Sail The meticulously designed itineraries and spacious, residential-style suites promise an unforgettable journey, exceeding expectations and setting a new standard for luxury travel at sea. Unforgettable Itineraries: Explore the Caribbean and the Mediterranean in Style The inaugural season boasts an impressive selection of voyages, inviting guests to discover over 130 unique destinations across more than 30 countries and territories. Whether you yearn for the turquoise waters of the Caribbean or the historical charm of the Mediterranean, Four Seasons Yachts has a curated itinerary to ignite your wanderlust. Caribbean Delights : The first voyages set sail in the Caribbean Sea from January to March 2026. These seven-night itineraries invite you to explore the most sought-after yachting destinations, including: Saint Barthélemy (St Barths) – Immerse yourself in the vibrant nightlife and luxurious boutiques. Nevis – Discover historical sites and bask on pristine beaches. The Grenadines – Explore secluded coves and untouched natural beauty. St Lucia – Relax on pristine beaches or enjoy a marina day in the picturesque Tobago Cays. Barbados – Immerse yourself in the rich culture and vibrant atmosphere. Martinique – Discover volcanic wonders and lush rainforests. Guadeloupe – Explore a captivating blend of French and Caribbean influences. Curaçao – Experience Dutch colonial architecture and vibrant culture. Aruba – Relax on world-renowned beaches and explore hidden coves. Mediterranean Marvels : Scheduled to begin in March 2026, the Grand Mediterranean voyages promise captivating experiences. Your journey will encompass: Croatia – Explore charming coastal towns and historical landmarks. Gibraltar – Discover a unique blend of British and Spanish influences. Montenegro – Immerse yourself in dramatic landscapes and charming coastal villages. Italy – Explore iconic cities, indulge in world-renowned cuisine, and experience rich cultural heritage. Portugal – Discover vibrant cities, charming towns, and breathtaking coastlines. Spain – Immerse yourself in the rich culture, historical sites, and world-renowned cuisine. Türkiye (Turkey) – Explore ancient ruins, bustling bazaars, and stunning natural landscapes. The Greek Isles are also a highlight, with stops planned for Athens, Ios, Santorini, Milos, and other captivating destinations. These itineraries venture beyond the typical tourist path, allowing you to discover hidden gems and experience the true essence of the Mediterranean. All itineraries are designed with flexibility in mind, allowing guests to tailor their experience and explore at their own pace. The knowledgeable Four Seasons team curates each itinerary, ensuring every adventure is extraordinary. Furthermore, pre- and post-hotel and overland programs at Four Seasons hotels and resorts can be seamlessly integrated into your yachting experience. Bespoke Suite Designs: Your Home at Sea Four Seasons Yachts redefines luxury yachting accommodations with its stunning, all-suite design concept. Developed in collaboration with Tillberg Design of Sweden and Yacht Creative Director Prosper Assouline, each suite is a haven of tranquility, featuring: Panoramic ocean views from floor-to-ceiling windows Elegant interiors with a residential feel, creating a welcoming and familiar atmosphere Spacious private terraces for outdoor relaxation Double vanity bathrooms with walk-in showers and ample closet space Meticulously crafted details and thoughtful amenities for an unparalleled level of comfort Unmatched Spaciousness : Four Seasons Yachts boasts a significant advantage – suites offer 50% more living space per guest compared to any competitor at sea. This translates into unparalleled comfort and a true sense of having a home away from home on the water. Unveiling the Suite Categories : The Yacht offers a variety of suite categories to cater to diverse preferences, from couples seeking intimacy to larger groups desiring expansive living areas. Here's a glimpse into some of the highlights: Signature Suites (7 total): These opulent suites range from 2,981 to a staggering 9,975 square feet, offering two to three bedrooms, separate living areas, indoor and outdoor dining spaces, private splash pools, outdoor showers, and the option to connect with adjoining suites. Funnel Suite: This showstopping suite, housed within the glass-enclosed funnel, boasts the title of the largest on board at 9,975 square feet. Spanning four levels, it features towering floor-to-ceiling wraparound windows, offering unparalleled 280-degree panoramic views. Loft Suite: This expansive suite measures 7,952 square feet and can accommodate up to 20 guests when connected with seven additional suites, the most extensive connecting suite configuration available at sea. Beyond the Suite: Unparalleled Amenities : When you're not unwinding in your luxurious suite, a world of exceptional amenities awaits: 11 Diverse Dining Options: Embark on a culinary journey with a variety of restaurants showcasing international flavors and impeccable service. State-of-the-Art Spa and Wellness Center: Indulge in rejuvenating treatments and personalized wellness experiences. Transverse Marina: This innovative feature allows for effortless tender boarding and water activities directly from the Yacht. Expansive Stern Pool: Relax and soak up the sun in one of the largest pools in the industry, featuring a unique hydraulic lift design that transforms the pool deck into a versatile space for events. Unwavering Service: A Hallmark of Four Seasons: Four Seasons Yachts upholds the brand's renowned reputation for exceptional service. A guest-to-staff ratio of 1:1 ensures personalized attention to every detail of your yachting experience. From attentive housekeeping to knowledgeable concierges, the dedicated Four Seasons staff is committed to exceeding your expectations and creating an unforgettable journey. Setting Sail for a New Era of Luxury Yachting Four Seasons Yachts promises to redefine luxury travel at sea. With meticulously crafted itineraries, unparalleled suite designs, a curated selection of onboard amenities, and the legendary Four Seasons service, this innovative concept elevates yachting to a whole new level.

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Four Seasons-Branded Cruise Line Will Offer Trips by Invitation Only. Its Leader Explains Why

As part of the luxury travel boom, demand for yachts is at an unprecedented level, according to longtime industry executive Larry Pimentel. Pimentel, the former CEO of the upscale cruise line Azamara and now the president and CEO of Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings Ltd., the joint owner and operator behind the new Four Seasons Yachts, has […] The post Four Seasons-Branded Cruise Line Will Offer Trips by Invitation Only. Its Leader Explains Why appeared first on BOAT CRUISES TRIPS NEWS. https://boat-cruises-trips.news-6.com/four-seasons-branded-cruise-line-will-offer-trips-by-invitation-only-its-leader-explains-why/

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Four Seasons Shares Details on First Yacht

Four Seasons, in collaboration with Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings Ltd. and Fincantieri, is preparing for the debut of Four Seasons Yachts in late 2025. The first yacht will offer 95 suites with various terrace decks, including the expansive Funnel Suite, spanning four levels and featuring a private wading pool and spa area. The yacht will have an onboard transverse marina for water sports and custom sea limousines for coastal touring.

The pool deck features a 66-foot pool that can be converted into a multi-function area. Access to reserve yacht voyages is by invitation, prioritizing Four Seasons guests and travel partners. A dedicated private client service division has been established for personalized assistance.

The inaugural season in 2025-26 will start in the Caribbean, then move to the Mediterranean, covering destinations like the French and Italian Rivieras, Adriatic coastline, and Greek Isles. The voyages will range from seven to 21 days. Four Seasons also has plans for a second yacht to be delivered in late November 2026, worth over €400 million.

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The path that François Pinault followed

The path that François Pinault followed is worthy of admiration - from a simple worker at his father's sawmill, to a world-famous entrepreneur and art collector. Today, the Pino family's fortune is estimated at billions of dollars. He is one of the few people who had a personal phone number for French President Jacques Chirac. And he, according to rumors, provided comprehensive support to the business person - after all, Francois once saved his life.

Wood business

François Pinault was born on August 21, 1936, in a small French village in the province of Brittany, in the family of a timber merchant. The boy's studies were of little interest. In addition, in college, he was often teased because of his rural accent and peasant origin. At 16, he stopped attending classes and helped his father.

In 1956, François enlisted in the army - uprisings began in Algeria, which was a French colony. In the military service, he earned start-up capital to start his own business, but the money came in handy only after a few years. Two years later, after returning home, Pino, on the recommendation of his father, got a job in a company selling timber.

In 1962, François married Louise Gaultier, daughter of the owner of the company, and soon ran the business himself. The company was renamed the Pinault Company, and they made large financial investments into it, including by Pino himself. However, the marriage did not last long: the couple divorced five years later, although they already had three children - François-Henri, Dominique, and Lawrence. Pino had to pay compensation to the Gaultier family, but he remained with the company.

In the early 70s, he began buying dozens of small firms on the brink of bankruptcy across the country in order to expand his concern. The takeover scheme was simple: he waited for the company's value to fall to a minimum, then bought it. He used the same principle later for market giants.

In those same years, Pino made a deal that brought him impressive profits. He unexpectedly sold his successful company for 25 million francs but kept 20% of the shares. While in the position of CFO, François placed a gigantic order for timber, which caused a real collapse in the market. Material prices plummeted, but to cancel the awful order, the new owners of the company would have to pay an extortionate fine. Since they did not have the named amount, they agreed to sell the Pinault firm for 5 million francs.

And this is not the only example of François Pinault's entrepreneurial ability. In 1974, he predicted or received from reliable sources information about the change in the price of sugar. Pinault invested 300 thousand in the business and earned 10 million francs on it.

Around the same time, François remarried. His chosen one was Maryvonne Campbell, an antique dealer. She introduced the future billionaire to the art world. Pino became interested in this area of investing money and bought world masterpieces of painting.

Abrupt course change

François Pinault's logging business was on its feet when, in 1988, he decided to radically change direction and began investing in various retail companies. He bought a majority stake in several companies: the CFAO distributor in Africa, Conforama home furnishings chain, Printemps department store, La Redoute mail-order store, and books and electronics firm FNA. In 1993, they renamed Pino to Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, and in 2005, PPR.

A year earlier, in 1992, the business owner created the holding company Artémis to manage the investments of the Pino family. They the news magazine Le Point in 1997, Christie's in 1998, and the Ponant cruise line in 2015. Now the holding also controls wine production in Château Latour, Clos de Tart, Domaine d'Eugénie, Château Grillet, Eisele. Another investment Pinault - football club "Rennes", winner of the French Cup: they bought him in 1998.

By the end of the 90s, the luxury industry became the primary interest of Francois Pinault. So, in 1999, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute bought a controlling stake in Gucci Group for $3 billion and Yves Saint Laurent. In 2000, Pinault gained the French jewelry company Boucheron, 2001 - Balenciaga, and the British fashion house Alexander McQueen. In the press, the business owner has even nicknamed the octopus: he bought up any companies and brands that seemed promising to him.

In 2003, the elderly billionaire handed over the management of his companies to his eldest son François-Henri, who is no less famous in business circles. The successor of the family business did not deviate from the planned course and gained the brands Brioni, Girard-Perregaux, and Pomellato. In 2013, PPR changed its name to Kering. The entrepreneur's son is also famous for his marriage to actress Salma Hayek.

Billionaire personality

Joseph Marc Blumenthal described François Pinault as a very tough and domineering leader. For example, after buying another company, he could not hesitate to cut almost all staff, and the first to cut its top managers. In such situations, the interests of business, not people guided solely by the entrepreneur.

Pinault was always very proud of his friendship with French President Jacques Chirac. Back in the 60s, the business person met a junior official, Jacques, and after that, while in prominent government positions, François provided tangible support. So, in 1981, Pinault gained a state-owned timber processing company for only 1 franc. All this is because the entrepreneur dissuaded Chirac from a dangerous trip on the train, which was later blown up by terrorists.

After handing over the management of the companies to his son, François focused on art. Now his collection includes about five thousand works of famous masters - Pablo Picasso, Pete Mondrian, Andy Warhol, and Jeff Koons. However, Pino approaches collecting from the point of view of benefits - investments should bring income. The billionaire even conceived of creating a large museum to house his art collection. The collection will be on display at the Paris Bourse, and the exhibition is scheduled to open in the spring of 2021.

The Pino family is also involved in charity work. In 2019, they allocated 109 million dollars for the restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral after the fire, in 2018 - contributed significantly to the restoration of Victor Hugo's house. Earlier, in 1990, the billionaire took part in the restoration of Burned down French forests, in 2000 he provided financial help to the islands of Brittany, affected by a spill of hazardous substances after the sinking of the oil tanker "Erica".

The figure of François Pinault causes the most controversial rumors in society. On the one hand, he is a successful entrepreneur who built a business empire, although he himself was from a simple peasant family. They say that in order to achieve success, Francois did not disdain dubious and even illegal transactions. In 2020 the Pinault family is ranked 27th on the Forbes list. Her fortune is estimated at $27 billion.

Quotes

"My competitors will either die themselves or I'll eat them."

"My only diploma is a car license."

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Fandom/Character List | Last Updated: 7/11/23

Key

🔒 = Character on hold

9-1-1/9-1-1 Lone Star

Carlos Reyes (Rafael Silva) 

Edmundo “Eddie” Diaz (Ryan Guzman) 

Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark)

Howard “Chimney” Han (Kenneth Choi)

Judson “Judd” Ryder (Jim Parrack)

Mateo Chávez (Julian Works)

Ravi Panikkar (Anirudh Pisharody) 

Robert “Bobby” Nash (Peter Krause)

Tommy Kinard (Lou Ferrigno Jr.)

Tyler Kennedy “TK” Strand (Ronen Rubinstein) 

Attack On Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin

Berthold Hoover

Eren Jager

Erwin Smith

Jean Kirshtein

Levi Ackerman

Marco Bodt

Mike Zacharias 

Porco Galliard

Reiner Braun

Zeke Jager

Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra

Bolin

Iroh II

Mako

Sokka 

Tenzin

Tonraq

Wei & Wing Beifong 

Zuko

Bullet Train

Ladybug (Brad Pitt)

Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)

DC

Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson)

Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) | 🔒

Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba

Gyomei Himejima | 🔒

Kyojuro Rengoku

Fire Force/Enen no Shouboutai

Akitaru Obi 

Konro Sagamiya | 🔒

Vulcan Joseph

Genshin Impact

Alhaitham

Arataki Itto

Diluc

Kaeya

Kamisato Ayato

Neuvillette

Thoma

Wriothesley

Zhongli

Haikyuu!!

Akaashi Keiji

Aone Takanobu

Atsumu Miya | 🔒

Azumane Asahi

Chikara Ennoshita

Daichi Sawamura

Iwaizumi Hajime

Keishin Ukai

Kita Shinsuke | 🔒

Koshi Sugawara

Kotaro Bokuto

Osamu Miya | 🔒

Ryunosuke Tanaka

Suna Rintaro

Tetsuro Kuroo

Wakatoshi Ushijima

Yuu Nishinoya

Harry Potter

Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson)

Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis)

Remus Lupin (David Thewlis) | 🔒

Viktor Krum (Stanislav Yanevski)

Honkai: Star Rail

Arlan

Blade

Dan Heng

Gallagher

Gepard

Jing Yuan

Sampo

Screwllum | 🔒

Welt Yang

Jujustu Kaisen

Kento Nanami

Megumi Fushiguro

Satoru Gojo

Yuji Itadori

MCU

Agustus “Pug” Pugliese (Josh Segarra)

Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan)

Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner)

Dane Whitman (Kit Harrington)

Daniel Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) 

Druig (Barry Keoghan)

Everett Ross (Martin Freeman)

Frank Castel (Jon Bernthal) 

Helmut Zemo (Daniel Brühl)

Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper)

Ikaris (Richard Madden)

Jack Russell (Gael García Bernal)

Jake Lockley (Oscar Isaac)

Joaquín Torres (Danny Ramirez)

Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani)

Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker)

Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac)

Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) 

Namor (Tenoch Huerta)

N’Jadaka (Killmonger) (Michael B. Jordan)

Peter Parker (Tobi Maguire | Andrew Garfield | Tom Holland)

Peter Quill (Chris Pratt)

Pietro Maximoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)

Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal)

Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie)

Scott Lang (Paul Rudd)

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Steve Rogers (Chris Evans)

Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac)

T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman)

Thor Odinson (Chris Hemsworth)

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.)

Xu Shang-Chi (Simu Liu)

My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia

Denki Kaminari

Eijiro Kirishima

Enji Todoroki (Endeavor)

Hitoshi Shinso

Izuku Midoriya 

Katuski Bakugou

Keigo Takami (Hawks)

Mashirao Ojiro

Mezo Shoji

Mirio Togata

Sekijiro Kan (Vlad King)     

Shoto Todoroki

Shouta Aizawa (Eraser Head) 

Tamaki Amajiki

Tashiro Toyomitsu (Fat Gum)

Tenya Iida  

Toshinori Yagi (All Might)

Overwatch

Cole Cassidy

Gabriel Reyes (Reaper)

Genji Shimada

Hanzo Shimada

Jack Morrison (Soldier: 76)

Jean-Baptiste Augustin

Mauga Ho’okano

Niran Pruksamanee (Lifeweaver)

Reinhardt Wilhelm

Pokémon

Brawly

Brock

Byron

Drayden

Hassel

Juan

Raihan

Kabu

Kukui

Larry

Leon

Lt. Surge

Marlon

Milo

Morty

RWBY

Clover Ebi

Neptune Vasilias

Qrow Branwen

Sun Wukong 

Seven Deadly Sins/Nanatsu no Taizai

Ban

Escanor

Estarossa/Mael | 🔒

Spider-verse

Miguel O’Hara

Paviter Prabhakar

Peter B. Parker

Star Wars

Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal)

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) | 🔒

Poe Dameron (Osacr Isaac) 

The Last of Us

Jesse

Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal)

Owen Moore

Top Gun: Maverick

Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller)

Jake “Hangman” Seresin (Glen Powell)

Mickey “Fanboy” Garcia (Danny Ramirez)

Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise)

Robert “Bob” Floyd (Lewis Pullman)

Triple Frontier

Francisco “Catfish” Morales (Pedro Pascal)

Santiago “Pope” García (Oscar Isaac)

Valorant

Alexander Sasha Novikov (Sova)

Amir El Amari (Cypher)

Erik Torsten (Breach)

Jamie Adeyemi (Phoenix)

Liam Byrne (Brimstone)

Li Zhao Yu (Iso)

Ryo Kiritani (Yoru)

Varun Batra (Harbor)

Vincent Fabron (Chamber)

Voltron

Hunk

Takashi Shirogane (Shiro)

Yuuri on Ice

Christophe Giacometti

Emil Nikola

Jean-Jacques Leroy (JJ)

Michele Crispino

Otabek Altin

Yuri Katsuki

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THE WORST MOVIES OF 2017: THE UNCLE CRIZZLE EDITION

As someone who reviews awful movies on the regular, I could easily give you about fifty, truly terrible films I caught this year. But, as always, the top ten are the ones that I thought would at least be interesting. Instead, they disappointed the shit out of me. And they are:

1.       A Ghost Story – I’m still trying out what colleagues whom I respect see in this boring, pretentious-ass waste. Even the sight of that mesmerizing waif Rooney Mara stress-gorging on pie wasn’t enough for me to give a fuck about this.

2.       Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – What should’ve been a marvelously pulpy adaptation of a classic, French, sci-fi comic book series was an busy, unappealing eyesore, complete with vapid lead performances from blank-slate pretty faces Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne and a pointless, bloated cameo from Rihanna. This movie pissed me the fuck off.

3.       Downsizing – The latest from well-respected auteur Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways) was a misguided attempt at class satire that eventually turned into one of the most racist films I’ve seen in recent memory. Seriously, Hong Chau better not win a Golden Globe for basically doing Anjelah Johnson’s nail-salon lady for the duration of a movie.

4.       The Snowman – I defy anyone to tell me what the hell was going on in this incomprehensible, snow-capped clusterfuck. Even director Tomas Alfredson, who stepped in for Martin Scorsese, immediately began distancing himself from this whodunit in interviews, saying a lot of what he wanted to film didn’t end up in the final project. But a dubbed Val Kilmer wandering around like a deranged old man – that easily made it in, huh?

5.       The Book of Henry – What was supposed to be director Colin Trevorrow’s chance to make a simple, humanistic bit of filmmaking before helming the ninth Star Wars movie turned out to be what allegedly got him fired from starting work on that project. Hey, if someone made a batshit-crazy movie about a woman who attempts to kill her next-door, child-molesting neighbor because her dead son told her to, would you give him the keys to the Millennium Falcon?

6.       The Mummy – Yeah, this was supposed to be the beginning of the “Dark Universe” franchise. Instead, it was derivative nonsense that wasted a game Tom Cruise and made you not want to deal with the monsters from Universal’s heyday. I’m glad “Dark Universe” is dead and gone.

7.       All I See Is You – Seriously, what the fuck are we gonna do with Blake Lively? Even though The Shallows made a lot of people believe this blond fox had some depth to her, this horseshit from Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball), where Lively played a blind chick who gets her eyesight back and starts to think her husband is holding her back, only reminded us how much shit we’ll take from cute, white women before we’re like, “Yeah, why am I watching this?”

8.       CHiPs – Yeah, Baywatch was some sun-soaked bullshit. But the worst movie of 2017 based on a memorably cheesy TV show was this infuriating garbage, which only existed to show that stars Dax Shepard (who also directed) and Michael Pena were some badass dudes drunk off their own machismo.  Speaking of toxic-masculinity bullshit…

9.       Fist Fight – True story: A friend and I got high before the movie. It was sativa, so I was tripping balls. When we watched the movie, even the disorienting high I was having couldn’t keep me from noticing how fuckin’ putrid this movie was. By the way, this movie also wasted Christina Hendricks, which pissed me off beyond belief.

10.   American Assassin – All I gotta say is: WORST USE OF MICHAEL KEATON EVER!

Can I throw one more in there?

11.   Any movie starring Bruce Willis – Seriously, what the fuck happened to this guy? Remember how awesome he was in Die Hard and The Sixth Sense? Now, he’s phoning it the fuck in in atrocities like this and that. I’m starting to think Kevin Smith has every right to constantly remind people he’s a bitch to work with.  

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Bernard Arnault Net Worth: How His Fashion Empire Made Him the World’s Second Richest Person

Louis Vuitton (LVMH) boss Bernard Arnault, 70, overtook Bill Gates to become the second richest person in the world, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index announced Wednesday—and he did it in style.

The French businessman, who is the force behind many of the biggest names in luxury, pushed to the second spot after a stellar year for LVMH, which saw company shares rise 43%. His net worth is now estimated at $107.6 billion—an increase of $39.1 billion in a single year.

This remains way short of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ $124 billion fortune. Yet Europe’s richest person—whose fortune is estimated to be equivalent to 3% of France’s GDP—is one of only three members in the ultra-exclusive centibillionaire’s club.

But just who is Bernard Arnault? And how did he make his fortune? More importantly, how does he manage to spend all that cash?

A fateful taxi ride

After studying engineering at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and graduating in 1971, Arnault joined his family’s construction company, Ferret-Savinel, as an engineer. Yet it was a chance meeting in New York that proved to have a far more dramatic impact.

Sitting in a yellow cab, Arnault asked the driver what he knew of France. “He could not name the president but he knew Dior,” Arnault recently told the Financial Times.

Marisa Berenson, Natalie Portman, Bernard Arnault and his wife Helene Arnault in the front row of the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2017-2018 show in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff—Getty Images

From there, Arnault’s course was set: within three years—and by the age of 30—he’d reinvented Ferret-Savinel as a real estate firm called Férinel, and replaced his father as company president. And in 1984, he embarked on an even more drastic venture. After lobbying the French government, he left Férinel and took up the reins of faltering textile company, Boussac—whose portfolio included the house of Dior—and systematically turned the company into the launchpad for his luxury empire. The purchase price? One Franc.

A luxury shopping spree

In 1987, Arnault was asked to mediatein the rancorous merger of Möet Hennessy and Louis Vuitton, largely because LV held the rights to Dior perfume and Henry Racamier, the 77-year-old chairman of LV, saw him as an ally, according to a report from the New York Times.

Arnault had other plans, however, and instead sided with Moet Hennessy boss, Alain Chevalier, and bought 27% of LVMH in combination with Guinness. This grew to 37% in 1988 and by 1989 Arnault was the biggest shareholder. A year later Racamier resigned from his own family firm and Arnault become both chairman and CEO of LVMH.

It was part of a rapid expansion that saw Arnault snap up luxury firms including Céline (1988), Berluti (1993), Guerlain (1994), Marc Jacobs (1997), Thomas Pink (1999), Fendi (2001), and DKNY (2001). 

French actress Catherine Deneuve and Bernard Arnault attend a show for a ready-to-wear collection of designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton in March, 2003 in Paris, France. Credit— Getty Images

LVMH itself now comprises 75 ‘houses,’ including Dom Pérignon, Bulgari, Givenchy, and TAG Heuer. Alongside the 23-story LVMH Tower on New York’s 57th Street, the company owns the Cheval Blanc ski resort in Courchevel, the Hotel Cipriani in Venice (site of George Clooney’s 2016 wedding), the Orient Express, and luxury resorts in the Caribbean, Maldives, St. Tropez, and Paris.

In 1999, Arnault also invested in a small but enterprising DVD rental firm. It’s name? Netflix.

A bet pays off

Arnault was one of the first overseas businessmen to take the gamble of investing in China at the start of Deng Xiaoping’s market-economy reforms, opening a Louis Vuitton store in Beijing in 1992.

The risk has massively paid off over the years. In the first quarter of this year, for instance, LVMH reported a revenue increase of 16% to $14.10 billion, largely fueled by Chinese buyers, who account for over a third of the luxury sector’s sales.

The exterior of a Louis Vuitton shop in Central, Hong Kong. South China Morning Post via Getty Images

“With the Chinese, the business is really moving from strength to strength,” Financial Director Jean-Jacques Guiony told reporters in April.

Going after Gucci

Like all business leaders, Arnault has suffered his fair share of failures along the way. Most notably, his 1999 attempt to takeover Gucci—described as “the bloodiest fight in fashion” by the New York Post—which resulted in litigation that Arnault ultimately lost. To his chagrin, the fashion house fell into the arms of arch-rival François Pinault for $2.92 billion.

In 2014, Arnault also admitted defeat in a four-year attempt to purchase luxury scarf-maker Hermès, after then-Hermès Chief Executive Patrick Thomas launched court proceedings to prevent LVMH from mounting a takeover. Arnault eventually agreed to relinquish his 23% stake in Hermès as a result.

Elsewhere, Arnault has unsuccessfully challenged the dominance of luxury auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s by buying British auctioneers Phillips in 1999 and got his fingers badly burnt with online retailer Boo.com, which went into liquidation in 2000.

Rising to second place

An April 10 release detailing first-quarter trading for LVMH, stated that, “All geographic regions are experiencing good growth.

“This includes a 20% increase in sales of fashion & leather goods, a 13 % rise in sales of wines & spirits and a 12 % increase in sales of perfumes & cosmetics. Overall, LMVH showed first-quarter growth of 16% and organic growth of 11% compared to 2018. Its overall revenue was around $14.3 billion.

Bernard Arnault takes a photo on his iPhone during the Celine Menswear Spring Summer 2020 fashion show on June 23, 2019 in Paris, France. Credit Victor VIRGILE—Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

These better-than-expected results have led to a 27% rise in LVMH shares since January 29, when the group announced record sales for 2018.

Arnault is not resting on his laurels, either. On April 17, LVMH announced the completion of its $3.2 billion deal for Belmond, making them part-owners or managers of 45 luxury hotel, restaurant, train, and river cruise properties.

Rihanna and Stella

On May 10, they followed this up with the creation of the new Fenty fashion line, centered around Barbadian pop star Rihanna.

“Designing a line like this with LVMH is an incredibly special moment for us,” Rihanna said in a release. “Mr. Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits. I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise.”

Rihanna poses during a promotional event for her brand, Fenty, in Paris on May 22, 2019. Credit MARTIN BUREAU—AFP/Getty Images)

More recently, LVMH announced a partnership with Stella McCartney’s name sake brand, which was publicly owned by rival company Kering until last year. The pair did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said it will allow McCartney to continue as creative director and majority owner of the brand.

“The chance to realize and accelerate the full potential of the brand alongside Mr. Arnault and as part of the LVMH family, while still holding the majority ownership in the business, was an opportunity that hugely excited me,” McCartney said in a release.

“It is the beginning of a beautiful story together, and we are convinced of the great long-term potential of her House,” said Arnault, before stressing that McCartney’s ethical principles were “a decisive factor”.

With the fashion world increasingly drawing criticism for its environmenal footprint, McCartney’s brand is clearly one that Arnault and LVMH can draw from.

“She was the first to put sustainability and ethical issues on the front stage, very early on, and built her House around these issues,” Arnault added about McCartney. “LVMH was the first large company in France to create a sustainability department, more than 25 years ago, and Stella will help us further increase awareness on these important topics.”

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Bernard Arnault Net Worth: How His Fashion Empire Made Him the World’s Second Richest Person

Louis Vuitton (LVMH) boss Bernard Arnault, 70, overtook Bill Gates to become the second richest person in the world, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index announced Wednesday—and he did it in style.

The French businessman, who is the force behind many of the biggest names in luxury, pushed to the second spot after a stellar year for LVMH, which saw company shares rise 43%. His net worth is now estimated at $107.6 billion—an increase of $39.1 billion in a single year.

This remains way short of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ $124 billion fortune. Yet Europe’s richest person—whose fortune is estimated to be equivalent to 3% of France’s GDP—is one of only three members in the ultra-exclusive centibillionaire’s club.

But just who is Bernard Arnault? And how did he make his fortune? More importantly, how does he manage to spend all that cash?

A fateful taxi ride

After studying engineering at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and graduating in 1971, Arnault joined his family’s construction company, Ferret-Savinel, as an engineer. Yet it was a chance meeting in New York that proved to have a far more dramatic impact.

Sitting in a yellow cab, Arnault asked the driver what he knew of France. “He could not name the president but he knew Dior,” Arnault recently told the Financial Times.

Marisa Berenson, Natalie Portman, Bernard Arnault and his wife Helene Arnault in the front row of the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2017-2018 show in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff—Getty Images

From there, Arnault’s course was set: within three years—and by the age of 30—he’d reinvented Ferret-Savinel as a real estate firm called Férinel, and replaced his father as company president. And in 1984, he embarked on an even more drastic venture. After lobbying the French government, he left Férinel and took up the reins of faltering textile company, Boussac—whose portfolio included the house of Dior—and systematically turned the company into the launchpad for his luxury empire. The purchase price? One Franc.

A luxury shopping spree

In 1987, Arnault was asked to mediatein the rancorous merger of Möet Hennessy and Louis Vuitton, largely because LV held the rights to Dior perfume and Henry Racamier, the 77-year-old chairman of LV, saw him as an ally, according to a report from the New York Times.

Arnault had other plans, however, and instead sided with Moet Hennessy boss, Alain Chevalier, and bought 27% of LVMH in combination with Guinness. This grew to 37% in 1988 and by 1989 Arnault was the biggest shareholder. A year later Racamier resigned from his own family firm and Arnault become both chairman and CEO of LVMH.

It was part of a rapid expansion that saw Arnault snap up luxury firms including Céline (1988), Berluti (1993), Guerlain (1994), Marc Jacobs (1997), Thomas Pink (1999), Fendi (2001), and DKNY (2001). 

French actress Catherine Deneuve and Bernard Arnault attend a show for a ready-to-wear collection of designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton in March, 2003 in Paris, France. Credit— Getty Images

LVMH itself now comprises 75 ‘houses,’ including Dom Pérignon, Bulgari, Givenchy, and TAG Heuer. Alongside the 23-story LVMH Tower on New York’s 57th Street, the company owns the Cheval Blanc ski resort in Courchevel, the Hotel Cipriani in Venice (site of George Clooney’s 2016 wedding), the Orient Express, and luxury resorts in the Caribbean, Maldives, St. Tropez, and Paris.

In 1999, Arnault also invested in a small but enterprising DVD rental firm. It’s name? Netflix.

A bet pays off

Arnault was one of the first overseas businessmen to take the gamble of investing in China at the start of Deng Xiaoping’s market-economy reforms, opening a Louis Vuitton store in Beijing in 1992.

The risk has massively paid off over the years. In the first quarter of this year, for instance, LVMH reported a revenue increase of 16% to $14.10 billion, largely fueled by Chinese buyers, who account for over a third of the luxury sector’s sales.

The exterior of a Louis Vuitton shop in Central, Hong Kong. South China Morning Post via Getty Images

“With the Chinese, the business is really moving from strength to strength,” Financial Director Jean-Jacques Guiony told reporters in April.

Going after Gucci

Like all business leaders, Arnault has suffered his fair share of failures along the way. Most notably, his 1999 attempt to takeover Gucci—described as “the bloodiest fight in fashion” by the New York Post—which resulted in litigation that Arnault ultimately lost. To his chagrin, the fashion house fell into the arms of arch-rival François Pinault for $2.92 billion.

In 2014, Arnault also admitted defeat in a four-year attempt to purchase luxury scarf-maker Hermès, after then-Hermès Chief Executive Patrick Thomas launched court proceedings to prevent LVMH from mounting a takeover. Arnault eventually agreed to relinquish his 23% stake in Hermès as a result.

Elsewhere, Arnault has unsuccessfully challenged the dominance of luxury auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s by buying British auctioneers Phillips in 1999 and got his fingers badly burnt with online retailer Boo.com, which went into liquidation in 2000.

Rising to second place

An April 10 release detailing first-quarter trading for LVMH, stated that, “All geographic regions are experiencing good growth.

“This includes a 20% increase in sales of fashion & leather goods, a 13 % rise in sales of wines & spirits and a 12 % increase in sales of perfumes & cosmetics. Overall, LMVH showed first-quarter growth of 16% and organic growth of 11% compared to 2018. Its overall revenue was around $14.3 billion.

Bernard Arnault takes a photo on his iPhone during the Celine Menswear Spring Summer 2020 fashion show on June 23, 2019 in Paris, France. Credit Victor VIRGILE—Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

These better-than-expected results have led to a 27% rise in LVMH shares since January 29, when the group announced record sales for 2018.

Arnault is not resting on his laurels, either. On April 17, LVMH announced the completion of its $3.2 billion deal for Belmond, making them part-owners or managers of 45 luxury hotel, restaurant, train, and river cruise properties.

Rihanna and Stella

On May 10, they followed this up with the creation of the new Fenty fashion line, centered around Barbadian pop star Rihanna.

“Designing a line like this with LVMH is an incredibly special moment for us,” Rihanna said in a release. “Mr. Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits. I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise.”

Rihanna poses during a promotional event for her brand, Fenty, in Paris on May 22, 2019. Credit MARTIN BUREAU—AFP/Getty Images)

More recently, LVMH announced a partnership with Stella McCartney’s name sake brand, which was publicly owned by rival company Kering until last year. The pair did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said it will allow McCartney to continue as creative director and majority owner of the brand.

“The chance to realize and accelerate the full potential of the brand alongside Mr. Arnault and as part of the LVMH family, while still holding the majority ownership in the business, was an opportunity that hugely excited me,” McCartney said in a release.

“It is the beginning of a beautiful story together, and we are convinced of the great long-term potential of her House,” said Arnault, before stressing that McCartney’s ethical principles were “a decisive factor”.

With the fashion world increasingly drawing criticism for its environmenal footprint, McCartney’s brand is clearly one that Arnault and LVMH can draw from.

“She was the first to put sustainability and ethical issues on the front stage, very early on, and built her House around these issues,” Arnault added about McCartney. “LVMH was the first large company in France to create a sustainability department, more than 25 years ago, and Stella will help us further increase awareness on these important topics.”

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Bernard Arnault Net Worth: How His Fashion Empire Made Him the World’s Second Richest Person

Louis Vuitton (LVMH) boss Bernard Arnault, 70, overtook Bill Gates to become the second richest person in the world, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index announced Wednesday—and he did it in style.

The French businessman, who is the force behind many of the biggest names in luxury, pushed to the second spot after a stellar year for LVMH, which saw company shares rise 43%. His net worth is now estimated at $107.6 billion—an increase of $39.1 billion in a single year.

This remains way short of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ $124 billion fortune. Yet Europe’s richest person—whose fortune is estimated to be equivalent to 3% of France’s GDP—is one of only three members in the ultra-exclusive centibillionaire’s club.

But just who is Bernard Arnault? And how did he make his fortune? More importantly, how does he manage to spend all that cash?

A fateful taxi ride

After studying engineering at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and graduating in 1971, Arnault joined his family’s construction company, Ferret-Savinel, as an engineer. Yet it was a chance meeting in New York that proved to have a far more dramatic impact.

Sitting in a yellow cab, Arnault asked the driver what he knew of France. “He could not name the president but he knew Dior,” Arnault recently told the Financial Times.

Marisa Berenson, Natalie Portman, Bernard Arnault and his wife Helene Arnault in the front row of the Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2017-2018 show in Paris, France. Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff—Getty Images

From there, Arnault’s course was set: within three years—and by the age of 30—he’d reinvented Ferret-Savinel as a real estate firm called Férinel, and replaced his father as company president. And in 1984, he embarked on an even more drastic venture. After lobbying the French government, he left Férinel and took up the reins of faltering textile company, Boussac—whose portfolio included the house of Dior—and systematically turned the company into the launchpad for his luxury empire. The purchase price? One Franc.

A luxury shopping spree

In 1987, Arnault was asked to mediate in the rancorous merger of Möet Hennessy and Louis Vuitton, largely because LV held the rights to Dior perfume and Henry Racamier, the 77-year-old chairman of LV, saw him as an ally, according to a report from the New York Times.

Arnault had other plans, however, and instead sided with Moet Hennessy boss, Alain Chevalier, and bought 27% of LVMH in combination with Guinness. This grew to 37% in 1988 and by 1989 Arnault was the biggest shareholder. A year later Racamier resigned from his own family firm and Arnault become both chairman and CEO of LVMH.

It was part of a rapid expansion that saw Arnault snap up luxury firms including Céline (1988), Berluti (1993), Guerlain (1994), Marc Jacobs (1997), Thomas Pink (1999), Fendi (2001), and DKNY (2001). 

French actress Catherine Deneuve and Bernard Arnault attend a show for a ready-to-wear collection of designer Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton in March, 2003 in Paris, France. Credit— Getty Images

LVMH itself now comprises 75 ‘houses,’ including Dom Pérignon, Bulgari, Givenchy, and TAG Heuer. Alongside the 23-story LVMH Tower on New York’s 57th Street, the company owns the Cheval Blanc ski resort in Courchevel, the Hotel Cipriani in Venice (site of George Clooney’s 2016 wedding), the Orient Express, and luxury resorts in the Caribbean, Maldives, St. Tropez, and Paris.

In 1999, Arnault also invested in a small but enterprising DVD rental firm. It’s name? Netflix.

A bet pays off

Arnault was one of the first overseas businessmen to take the gamble of investing in China at the start of Deng Xiaoping’s market-economy reforms, opening a Louis Vuitton store in Beijing in 1992.

The risk has massively paid off over the years. In the first quarter of this year, for instance, LVMH reported a revenue increase of 16% to $14.10 billion, largely fueled by Chinese buyers, who account for over a third of the luxury sector’s sales.

The exterior of a Louis Vuitton shop in Central, Hong Kong. South China Morning Post via Getty Images

“With the Chinese, the business is really moving from strength to strength,” Financial Director Jean-Jacques Guiony told reporters in April.

Going after Gucci

Like all business leaders, Arnault has suffered his fair share of failures along the way. Most notably, his 1999 attempt to takeover Gucci—described as “the bloodiest fight in fashion” by the New York Post—which resulted in litigation that Arnault ultimately lost. To his chagrin, the fashion house fell into the arms of arch-rival François Pinault for $2.92 billion.

In 2014, Arnault also admitted defeat in a four-year attempt to purchase luxury scarf-maker Hermès, after then-Hermès Chief Executive Patrick Thomas launched court proceedings to prevent LVMH from mounting a takeover. Arnault eventually agreed to relinquish his 23% stake in Hermès as a result.

Elsewhere, Arnault has unsuccessfully challenged the dominance of luxury auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s by buying British auctioneers Phillips in 1999 and got his fingers badly burnt with online retailer Boo.com, which went into liquidation in 2000.

Rising to second place

An April 10 release detailing first-quarter trading for LVMH, stated that, “All geographic regions are experiencing good growth.

“This includes a 20% increase in sales of fashion & leather goods, a 13 % rise in sales of wines & spirits and a 12 % increase in sales of perfumes & cosmetics. Overall, LMVH showed first-quarter growth of 16% and organic growth of 11% compared to 2018. Its overall revenue was around $14.3 billion.

Bernard Arnault takes a photo on his iPhone during the Celine Menswear Spring Summer 2020 fashion show on June 23, 2019 in Paris, France. Credit Victor VIRGILE—Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

These better-than-expected results have led to a 27% rise in LVMH shares since January 29, when the group announced record sales for 2018.

Arnault is not resting on his laurels, either. On April 17, LVMH announced the completion of its $3.2 billion deal for Belmond, making them part-owners or managers of 45 luxury hotel, restaurant, train, and river cruise properties.

Rihanna and Stella

On May 10, they followed this up with the creation of the new Fenty fashion line, centered around Barbadian pop star Rihanna.

“Designing a line like this with LVMH is an incredibly special moment for us,” Rihanna said in a release. “Mr. Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits. I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise.”

Rihanna poses during a promotional event for her brand, Fenty, in Paris on May 22, 2019. Credit MARTIN BUREAU—AFP/Getty Images)

More recently, LVMH announced a partnership with Stella McCartney’s name sake brand, which was publicly owned by rival company Kering until last year. The pair did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said it will allow McCartney to continue as creative director and majority owner of the brand.

“The chance to realize and accelerate the full potential of the brand alongside Mr. Arnault and as part of the LVMH family, while still holding the majority ownership in the business, was an opportunity that hugely excited me,” McCartney said in a release.

“It is the beginning of a beautiful story together, and we are convinced of the great long-term potential of her House,” said Arnault, before stressing that McCartney’s ethical principles were “a decisive factor”.

With the fashion world increasingly drawing criticism for its environmenal footprint, McCartney’s brand is clearly one that Arnault and LVMH can draw from.

“She was the first to put sustainability and ethical issues on the front stage, very early on, and built her House around these issues,” Arnault added about McCartney. “LVMH was the first large company in France to create a sustainability department, more than 25 years ago, and Stella will help us further increase awareness on these important topics.”

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Am 09. Juli 2024 fand in der Werft in Ancona die Kiellegung der „Four Seasons I“ statt, einem ultra-luxuriösen Schiff, das von Fincantieri gebaut und von der Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings LTD betrieben wird. Das Schiff soll Ende 2025 fertiggestellt werden und im Januar 2026 seine Jungfernfahrt antreten. Die Bedeutung der Kiellegung Die Kiellegung markiert den offiziellen Beginn des Baus eines…

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A ‘freaking fag revolutionary’ remembers the early years of gay liberation in Chicago

When the annual Pride Parade steps off from the intersection of Broadway and Montrose at noon on Sunday, June 30—with Lori Lightfoot, Chicago's first openly gay mayor, serving as honorary grand marshal—it will represent a very different mind-set from the event that launched the pride parade tradition. This year's parade is expected to draw more than a million participants and onlookers to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion of June 28 and 29, 1969. Thus the theme Stonewall 50: Millions of Moments of Pride.

I was a teenaged member of Chicago Gay Liberation, the loose-knit, short-lived group that organized the first pride parade on Saturday, June 27, 1970. Most of our group thought of ourselves, proudly if irreverently, as members of the "freaking fag revolution"—to borrow the phrase used by Thomas Aquinas Foran, the U.S. attorney who had prosecuted the so-called "Chicago Seven" anti-war activists charged with conspiracy and incitement to riot as a result of their protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

The first parade wasn't even a parade. It was a march, which meant we were allowed to walk on the sidewalks but not in the streets. There were no floats, no cars, no politicians, no crowds, no corporate sponsors pitching their brands to onlookers. The last thing on our minds was the possibility of any mayor, let alone an openly gay one, leading the way; we were happy the city's then-mayor, "Boss" Richard J. Daley, didn't set his cops on us.

The day began at noon with a rally in Washington Square Park across the street from the Newberry Library—known as "Bughouse Square" because of its storied history as a free-speech forum. From there we walked to the historic Water Tower at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago Avenues. Then, instead of dispersing as we had originally planned, we impulsively headed south on Michigan into the Loop, chanting "Out of the closets and into the streets!" as we wended our way through throngs of Mag Mile shoppers. The march ended with another rally in Civic Center Plaza (now Daley Plaza), where the event culminated in a joyous circle dance around the Picasso statue.

Between 150 and 300 people (depending on which account you read) showed up to celebrate what our flyer promoting the event declared (in all capital letters) was: "THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF GAY PEOPLE TELLING THE WARPED, SICK, MALADJUSTED, PURITAN AMERIKAN SOCIETY THAT THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH SHIT."

That flyer is on display as part of "Out of the Closets & Into the Streets: Power, Pride & Resistance in Chicago's Gay Liberation Movement," a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, the midwest's largest LGBTQ library and research center. Conceived by the library's director, Wil Brant, and curated by a team of young volunteers including professional librarians Chase Ollis and James Conley and designer Kurt Conley, the display is drawn from Gerber/Hart's extensive archival collection.

The march marked the first anniversary of a riot in New York City on June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay nightclub in Greenwich Village owned by the Genovese crime family, reacted violently to what had begun as a routine police raid. That event, and the events leading up to and following it, are well covered in a new book, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein (NYU Press).

But that first Stonewall anniversary march wasn't the first activity of Chicago Gay Liberation, which started up in fall 1970 after University of Chicago grad student Henry Wiemhoff placed an ad in the Chicago Maroon student newspaper seeking a gay roommate. Not only did he get a roommate—a female taxicab driver named Michal Brody—he got a discussion group. We met in Wiemhoff and Brody's Hyde Park apartment and then, as our numbers grew, began to gather at the Blue Gargoyle, a community center and coffeehouse in the multicultural, nondenominational University Church on the University of Chicago campus.

Talking soon led to action. The first public Gay Lib event I participated in was a protest four months before the Stonewall march, on the snowy afternoon of Wednesday, February 25, 1970, outside the Loop headquarters of the Women's Bar Association of Illinois. The group was hosting a program on "Youthful Offenders" with a Chicago police officer, Sergeant John Manley, as guest speaker. But for us, the offender was Manley himself. The blond, muscular cop was notorious for entrapping gay men in Lincoln Park restrooms; wearing street clothes, he would pretend to solicit guys for sex and then arrest them if they responded to his invitation. Mattachine Midwest, an established "homophile" organization in town, published Manley's picture in its mimeographed monthly newsletter and mockingly suggested Manley himself was a closet case: "If I were gay and I didn't want anybody to know, and I felt very, very guilty, I think I might get a job where I could cruise in the public interest," wrote David Stienecker, the newsletter's editor. On February 7, 1970, Manley made an early morning appearance at Stienecker's third-floor apartment to arrest him for criminal defamation.

"After I unsuccessfully attempted to make a phone call, Manley called for a police van and I was escorted from my apartment in handcuffs," Stienecker now recalls. "Upon arriving at the precinct house, Manley suggested that if I just pleaded guilty the judge would only give me a slap on the wrist." But Stienecker, represented by the diligent and fierce lesbian attorney Renee Hanover, fought the charges. After several court appearances, most of which Manley missed, the case was thrown out of court, but Stienecker lost his job as an editor at World Book Encyclopedia due to the ensuing publicity—there then being no legal protection against employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Manley later rose to the rank of captain in the police force, but his career crashed and burned in the mid-1990s when he was fired for sexually harassing female officers under his supervision. Some 20 years later, his name popped up in the news again when he was ticketed for, of all things, impersonating a government official after he posed as a U.S. Maritime Service "special agent" to avoid a parking ticket. Stienecker, who went on to a successful career writing educational books for children, is credited as a program supporter of Gerber/Hart's "Out of the Closets" exhibit.

In March 1970, we responded to the release of The Boys in the Band, the film version of the 1968 off-Broadway stage hit. Our aim was not to boycott the movie—which used waspish humor to illustrate the pathological, self-hating behavior of a group of gay New York men—but to use it as a teaching opportunity. We handed out flyers on the street outside the Carnegie Theatre on Rush Street (where Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse is now), which read in part: "The pain and cruelty typified by The Boys in the Band should be understood as the expression of human lives damaged by an environment of condemnation, suspicion, job discrimination, and legal harrassment [sic]."

Gay Liberation also organized dances, which drew large crowds from around the city. Though same-sex dancing wasn't illegal, it was forbidden in the mob-owned gay bars in Boss Daley's Chicago, where periodic police raids were a given. The first two Gay Lib dances were held in the protected environs of the University of Chicago campus. (It inspired other LGBTQ student groups to hold their own dances at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle—now UIC—and Northwestern University. At the latter, music was provided by the Siegel-Schwall Band, then one of Chicago's hottest blues-rock bands. )

When the U. of C. demanded that CGL move its dances off campus because the crowds were getting too big, we booked the Coliseum, located on South Wabash between 14th and 16th Streets, a huge venue that had hosted several Republican presidential conventions, sports events, rock concerts, and, a few weeks previously, a congress of Black Muslims. As historian Timothy Stewart-Winter, author of Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press), recounts in a Slate article titled "Beyond Stonewall: How Gay History Looks Different From Chicago":

"[T]here was a problem: The venue required an insurance policy, and every insurance agent the organizers approached said the risk was too great that the police would raid the dance, cart the attendees off to jail, and levy fines. Only on the day before the dance did the activists find a broker who'd sell them a policy—a black man whose company had insured the Nation of Islam's annual convention at the same venue."

About 2,000 people showed up at the Coliseum to dance for liberation on April 18, 1970. So did the police. But when the cops entered the hall and came face to face with a phalanx of attorneys—including the formidable Renee Hanover—primed to document any civil liberties violations, they shrugged and went away.

The Gerber/Hart exhibit includes copies of the mimeographed newsletters that Gay Lib used to spread its message in those long-ago pre-Internet days. Also on display is a copy of the Chicago Seed, the city's hippie/radical underground paper, which published an eight-page Gay Liberation supplement in one issue. There's also a well-deserved tribute to the late Frank Robinson, who gave Chicago's LGBTQ community the first professional- quality publications we could call our own. Robinson was a closeted middle-aged editor for Playboy magazine; unable to come out for our demonstrations, he devoted himself to behind-the-scenes messaging. After publishing a one time "Gay Pride" paper to promote the 1971 Pride Parade (which by then had been relocated to the Lincoln Park/Lakeview area on the north side), Robinson put out two editions of The Paper, a 1972 tabloid that covered local LGBTQ arts and politics. The Paper ran interviews with local counterculture celebrities such as painter Ed Paschke, lesbian singer-songwriter Linda Shear, female impersonators Roby Landers and Wanda Lust, and stage director Gary Tucker, aka "Eleven," whose gender-bending Godzilla Rainbow Troupe was then running its hit production of Charles Ludlam and Bill Vehr's outrageous Turds in Hell. A copy of The Paper on display at Gerber/Hart shows a photo from another landmark of Chicago's fledgling off-Loop theater movement, the Organic Theater's sci-fi epic Warp!, featuring André De Shields (who just won a Tony for his performance in the Broadway hit Hadestown) as Xander the Unconquerable. In 1973, Robinson had relocated to San Francisco, where he became the speechwriter for a camera store owner and activist with aspirations to a political career—Harvey Milk. But by then the city had its first (more or less) regularly published newspaper, the Chicago Gay Crusader, edited by activist Michael Bergeron with copy editing supervision by his lover Bill Kelley.

The success of the June 1970 Stonewall anniversary march (no one got arrested!) encouraged members of Gay Liberation to start developing a larger agenda. Inevitably, there were conflicts. Some wanted to merge Gay Lib into a broader leftist coalition; others preferred to keep the focus on LGBTQ issues. GL's women's and Black caucuses went off in their own directions; the Black caucus turned into Third World Gay Revolutionaries, led by Ortez Alderson, who went to prison for destroying draft records in downstate Pontiac. And in September 1970, as reported in a CGL newsletter displayed in the Gerber/Hart exhibit, "Tensions that had been brewing for some weeks finally came to a head . . . with the result that the group suffered a schism and a large number of members announced they were forming a new group—not a new caucus—to be called 'The Chicago Gay Alliance.' . . . Though there . . . were moments of acrimony, the parting was amicable. . . . All present expressed a desire to avoid the infighting of competitive groups in other cities"—a reference to the internecine turf wars that tore at the fabric of New York's gay community around the same time.

The debut issue of the CGA newsletter in November 1970 explained: "The Chicago Gay Alliance is actively interested in alleviating the ghetto (whether spiritual or physical) conditions of homosexuals, in dispelling the psychological and sociological mythology that has grown up about the subject of homosexuality, in providing referral services to homosexuals, in helping homosexuals 'coming out' develop a sense of pride in who they are and courage in facing the generally hostile outside world, to provide additional social outlets so that homosexuals can meet each other as human beings, to change repressive laws and end police and political harassment, and to improve communications between the homosexual and the heterosexual communities."

In 1971 CGA gave Chicago its first LGBTQ community center, a ramshackle red-brick two-story rented house on an Old Town side street at 171 W. Elm. By 1973 the center had closed for lack of financial support, and CGA ceased operations. But the activism continued. A July 1973 issue of the Chicago Gay Crusader reported that 20th Ward alderman Cliff Kelley, working with a group called Illinois Gays for Legislative Action, had introduced legislation in the Chicago City Council to prohibit discrimination in jobs, housing, and public accommodations based on sexual orientation. It took 15 years for the City Council to finally vote an LGBTQ-inclusive Chicago Human Rights Ordinance into law on December 21, 1988.

The Old Town community center paved the way for today's gleaming Center on Halsted. The Gay Crusader was succeeded by the weekly newspaper GayLife, founded in 1975 by the late Grant Ford, and then by Windy City Times, cofounded in 1985 by Tracy Baim, now publisher of the Reader, and still publishing in print and online 34 years later. (I served as editor of both GayLife and WCT in the '80s.)

The Gerber/Hart exhibit's narrative arc climaxes with a major event from 1977, chronicled in an issue of GayLife on display. On June 14 of that year, singer, orange-juice industry spokeswoman, and former Miss America Anita Bryant arrived in Chicago for a concert at the historic Medinah Temple at Wabash and Ohio (it's now a Bloomingdale's home furniture store). The concert had been booked before Bryant achieved national notoriety as leader of an anti-LGBTQ initiative in Dade County, Florida. LGBTQ activists, including me, picketed the Bryant concert in Chicago, despite being cautioned by gay establishment leaders that our action would be an embarrassing failure. By then, it was thought, the activist energy of the early 1970s had waned, and the only time queers turned out en masse was for the Pride Parade. But a spontaneous, unexpected turnout of 3,000 to 5,000 (depending on whom you ask) proved the naysayers wrong.

Chicago Gay Liberation, the Chicago Gay Alliance, and the other groups that sprang up in the wake of Stonewall ran out of steam by the end of the decade, but the sense of empowerment they gave the community—and the lessons we learned from their successes and setbacks—guided us into the 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic and the struggle for civil rights at the city, county, and state level drove a new activist spirit. "The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long," notes Gerber/Hart's James Conley. "As transformative as those groups were, they were temporary. But the impact they had in their short span of existence was monumental and lasting."   v

Special thanks to Amber Lewis at Columbia College Chicago

Correction: This article has been revised to reflect that the Siegel-Schwall Band played at a dance held on the campus of Northwestern University, not that of the University of Chicago.

Source: https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/gerber-hart-gay-pride-history/Content?oid=70924510

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