Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capture in an army raid on one of his estates last year, Colombian officials suspected that he might have been tipped off by Medina. A military surveillance team subsequently was assigned to tail the general. The spying operation reportedly established ties between Medina and both Escobar and another drug baron, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano." Apparently not certain that the evidence would hold up in court, the government allowed Medina to retire. Two days after Medina's successor, General Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla, took over, the National Police launched Operation Primavera, the most successful strike against cocaine producers...
...Dodd and Baron become defense counsel for Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who may or may not have killed a man eight years ago in China town. Baron is sure that Kim is innocent because Kim's mother, who begs him to take the case, is so nice and sweet. "Even Attila the Hun had a mother," cautions Dodd, but soon enough he too is persuaded to take the case...
Dodd is the True Believer in Joseph Ruben's latest film. The movie follows the adventures of lawyer Dodd (James Woods) and his associate Roger Baron (Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact...
Trapped inside this billionaire publishing baron are a multitude of people: a peasant haggler, stage director, domineering patriarch, sophisticated currency trader, military commander, politician, Hollywood mogul and unabashed publicity man. Following his train of thought is like listening to ten tape recorders, constantly switching on and off, constantly interrupting one another...
...critics, billionaire publishing baron Robert Maxwell is a capricious, blustering egotist. He is also a cunning entrepreneur who has added Macmillan to his growing U. S. stake...