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...soon approached by a Mr. Hung, quite evidently from the mainland, who says he wants to buy the Imperial Stitching building. Bunt?s mother wants to sell -- Hung?s offer will bring them roughly ?1 million, or $1.6 million -- and when her son objects to Hung?s strong-arm negotiations, she says, ?Oh, pack it in! I could do business with that man.? This paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher?s comment after meeting Mikhail Gorbachev pretty much tips Theroux?s hand in ?Kowloon Tong.? He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards...
...narcotics empire that virtually controlled the Illinois state prison system. Hoover held jailhouse meetings, dictated memos and issued orders into his cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near Joliet, they even bragged about having keys to every door in the facility except the one to the outside...
...parties. It would accelerate the Family Channel's migration away from predominantly religious fare toward a more eclectic--and higher-rated--schedule. That's one reason the channel, now available in 67 million homes, changed its name in 1989 from the Christian Broadcasting Network. The latter remains the producing arm responsible for Robertson's religious programming...
...Twilight Zone chaser. Karen Ziemba combines Broadway pizazz with shy-girl vulnerability as a contestant who partners a stunt pilot (Daniel McDonald) but is secretly married to the marathon's slimy emcee (Gregory Harrison). The mix of nostalgia, cynicism and period artifice, however, keeps us at arm's length from the material (beware of any show in which one character calls another "Flyboy"). The ersatz-'30s numbers are pleasant but forgettable, although Debra Monk, as a marathon veteran, puts across a saucy showstopper, Everybody's Girl. Mostly, however, Steel Pier just seems tinny...
...Presidents' Summit for America's Future, a three-day combination pep rally and planning session that begins Sunday. It will formally launch an enormous effort to enlist volunteers to save children from being swallowed up into the underclass. Powell has been at it for months and has cajoled or arm-twisted all sorts of organizations, from the Texas state comptroller's office to the National Football League Players Association, into joining the drive...