Day: May 10, 2016

The Jennifer Lawrence Diary™

Jennifer LawrenceBoulevard reviews the latest media coverage of the Oscar-winning Louisville native in our exclusive Jennifer Lawrence Diary™. Today’s news, rated on a scale of 1-5 stars:

Three starsIs it just us, or is there something especially British about the Daily Star’s headline this morning? Look: “Jennifer Lawrence turns sex kitten by baring her bra in serious image revamp.”

The scene last night: somewhere in London, where Lawrence, 25, was partying after a screening earlier in the evening of her latest film, X Men: Apocalypse, where she’d fallen after a stiletto heel gave way while she was greeting fans. “The blond bombshell,” the Star growls, “stripped right down to a lacy bra-like dress, and risked a major wardrobe fail in the process. The black figure-hugging frock ended in a floral skirt and allowed the hottie to flash some serious cleavage as she passed the paps.”

Serious cleavage, indeed, based on the Star photos with the story — earning them three stars! (An accompanying sidebar about other celebrities is more blunt: “The biggest boobs in showbiz.”)

Related: Lawrence has developed a reputation for being something of a klutz, according to the Independent.

The A-list

“We have loyal people who come year after year and I have the pleasure of talking to people from all over the country and that is so much fun. Oklahoma, Texas, New York!”

— Wilma Barnstable, 83-year-old matriarch of the Barnstable family, in W magazine after Friday’s annual Barnstable-Brown Derby party.

Related: Both of Tiger Woods’ exes made the party rounds Derby weekend — and organizers were ordered to keep the two blondes apart (Fox News).

Executive Pay

The 25 best-paid hedge fund managers took home a combined $12.94 billion in income last year, according to The New York Times, which makes the best-paid executives at big Louisville employers look like amateurs.

Jeffrey Immelt
Immelt

Of 11 companies tracked by Boulevard, the exec with the biggest paycheck last year was GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, who got $33 million, including stock awards, the change in his pension account value, and other benefits.

Latest Headlines

Amazon in ready-to-cook food delivery; Hut adding 200 stores in UK; Texas sued over peanuts, and UPS stockholders reject ‘Holy Land’ proposal

A news summary, with a special focus on big Louisville employers; updated 11:01 a.m.

AMAZON and Tyson Foods are close to launching a ready-to-cook ingredients delivery service, akin to what Blue Apron and HelloFresh do, showing the e-commerce company’s growing ambition in the grocery and food business (Business Insider). Restoration Hardware, Land’s End and other retailers are getting into Prime membership-like plans (CBS). As Amazon gets into air delivery, is it time to sell UPS shares (The Street)?

PIZZA HUT is adding 200 stores and about 3,000 jobs across the UK. The expansion will cost £40 million ($57 million U.S.) and a quarter of the stores will be Pizza Hut “Express” formats (Independent). Pizza Hut already has more than 14,100 restaurants and 300,000 employees in nearly 100 countries, excluding the Yum China division; those are about 59% of Yum’s total 505,000 workers (company website).

FORD has filed for a patent for an invention producing artificial noises that make it sound like more cylinders are working, leading drivers to be more fuel-efficient (Markets Daily).

TEXAS ROADHOUSE: In a lawsuit, an Iowa man has accused the company of negligence after he slipped on peanut shells on a Cedar Falls restaurant floor and shattered his knee in February 2015. The steakhouse chain serves buckets of peanuts to customers, and encourages them to throw the discarded shells on the floor, creating a hazard, the suit says (Des Moines Register).

UPS said shareholders re-elected all 11 members of the board of directors during their annual meeting. But stockholders voted down three shareholder proposals, including one on “Holy Land Principles” that would govern the shipper’s Israeli-Palestinian employment practices (SEC filing).

KINDRED has filed its quarterly report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (10-Q filing).

In other news, U.S. stock markets were climbing, with the S&P 500 index at 2077, up 1% (Google Finance). Led by Amazon, nearly all components in the 11-stock Boulevard Stock Portfolio were trading higher.