Carl Icahn

摘要

It has been a busy few weeks for Carl Icahn, the billionaire financier who gained fame—some would say notoriety—in the 1980s by taking over TWA and agitating for change at the likes of Texaco and RJR Nabisco. While juggling his bids to get on the board of mobile-phone manufacturer Motorola and to buy car-parts maker Lear, Icahn, 71, took a break to talk with Time's Barbara Kiviat about imperial ceos, movies by mail and the one thing no one ever gets about him.