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...constant shuffling raised suspicion that Iacocca had no real plan for stepping down but rather, as a bemused insider put it, "wanted to beat Armand Hammer's record" for executive longevity. (Hammer died in 1990 at 92, still at the helm of Occidental Petroleum...
...under the guidance of the Committee for a Marseillaise of Fraternity, which is petitioning for a version that cuts - out the nastier bits of gristle and gore. Sponsored by such leading lights as First Lady Danielle Mitterrand and soccer hero Michel Platini, the committee points to the research of Armand Thuair, a former fire fighter who conducted an exhaustive survey of 175 national anthems, purporting to prove that "France is the only country in the world to have adopted and preserved a bellicose national anthem...
...Cesar (Armand Assante), America is a gorgeous woman; he wants to make crazy, expert love to it all night long, as he does to the gloriously trashy Lanna Lake (Cathy Moriarty). For his brother Nestor (Antonio Banderas), who composes romantic ballads and mopes soulfully, Cuba is the woman he left behind -- the "beautiful Maria" he sings of and pines...
...great museum would want to have. (The 1980s produced shoals of zillionaires but few connoisseurs.) And second, a fashion among the rich for making their own "vanity" museums, a practice whose reductio ad absurdum was reached by places like the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago and the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles -- a $100 million shell with maybe six paintings of quality inside...
...trivial package seems obscene. The Hammer Museum cannot evolve into a serious collection. It would have difficulty making a mark as a site of temporary shows, since there is too much competition from other Los Angeles museums. Perhaps, as one critic suggested, the place could be converted into the Armand Hammer Memorial Multiplex Cinema. Or perhaps it should be left as it is, a warning to egotistical collectors who think they can achieve immortality by setting up their own museums. A monument, in short, to the vanity of vanity...