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Grey and Swayze are an attractive couple, and there is a good rush to Director Emile Ardolino's staging of the dance sequences. If the ending of Eleanor Bergstein's script is too neat and inspirational, the rough energy of the film's song and dance does carry one along, past the whispered doubts of better judgment...
...firm's trading accounts before his misdeeds were made known. To many Wall Streeters, it almost seemed as if Boesky had profited from inside knowledge of his own downfall, while other, more honest arbitragers lost an estimated $2 billion in the subsequent market turmoil. The latest arrests, says Daniel Bergstein, a senior partner at the Manhattan law firm Finley Kumble Wagner Heine & Underberg, "are a reaction to claims that the SEC was treating the investment-banking community different from other white-collar criminals...
Lawyer Daniel Bergstein, a senior partner in the New York firm of Finley Kumble Wagner, which has many Wall Street clients, notes that raiders and arbitragers can form what he calls an "unholy alliance." In a typical maneuver, they might have a mutual commitment to buy up stock in a company, limiting their blocks to less than 5% to avoid the SEC's required disclosure rule. Then one member of the ring can leak the rumor of an impending takeover. When legitimate arbitragers leap into the fray, the group can unload at an inflated stock price and make off with...
...TURN Directed by Claudia Weill Screenplay by Eleanor Bergstein...
...Turn were a triple-A ball player, the scouting report might read:"Excellent singles hitter, moderate speed, covers a lot of ground, good prospect for the majors." Screenwriter Bergstein has a flair for funny lines that arise from the characters, and Director Weill has drawn fine performances from a large, likable cast. Some movies show, others reveal. It's My Turn is a minor revelation...