Word: absconders
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...million in advance sales) not seen since The Lion King. Start with a presold audience, lovers of the classic comedy (the first film Brooks directed) about a schlocky Broadway producer who connives with his nervous accountant to raise money for an awful Nazi musical so they can abscond with the funds when the thing flops. Add the best-possible modern substitutes for stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder--Nathan Lane as producer Max Bialystock and Matthew Broderick as nebbishy Leo Bloom--and Broadway's hottest musical director, Susan Stroman (Contact, The Music Man). Support them with a gaggle of Broadway...
...that is remarkable for both its persistent rigidity and its extraordinary visibility. There are hardly any physical spaces on this campus open to those not endowed with exceptional wealth. Those who are excluded from the upper strata are left clambering for a student center. Those who populate that strata abscond to their clubhouses and their downtown parties, their sense of perspective and justice obliterated in a wash of luxury and privilege...
...that the pants have been appropriated, the only thing left to do is to abscond with the sparkling snow white jackets and transfer to the Cordon Bleu...
...light-fingered mob crisscrosses the globe and skips back and forth in history in search of national treasures to smuggle. Carmen may steal away to ancient China to purloin the Great Wall, hop ahead to medieval England to snitch the Magna Charta, or foray to present-day Uganda to abscond with a rare mountain gorilla...
...course, if Hollywood learned that the colonel syphoned a few of the Ayatollah's bucks and planned to abscond to Bolivia, it would make a movie. And North and Poindexter would become the new Redford and Newman...