Summary
According to a new report, despite 20 years of change in Britain, social mobility has barely improved, with bright children still ruled out of top jobs because they don't know the right people, as Stephen McGinty reports
IT MAY be on the smooth, butterscotch leather seats of his private jet, or on the terrace of his Beverly Hills estate, or even in his plush office at Universal Pictures, but every week Brian Grazer has an appointment with someone he does not know. Once asked the secret of his success, the Oscar-winning producer of A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code said it was simple: connections.See the full content of this document
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Making the Connection
Each and every week for the past 20 years, the film-maker with the whippet frame and hair like a loo brush, has sat down for an hour with experts in every field of study or profession. Last year, he advertised for his latest cultural attache, a young assistant who, for a salary of dollars 150,000, would be "responsible for finding an interesting person for Brian to meet with every week... an astronau...
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