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...first quarter, companies announced plans to repurchase $39 billion of their own stock, down from $52 billion during the same period last year. At the same time, companies are flooding the market with new stock: $34 billion in the first quarter, vs. $28 billion last year, according to Charles Biderman, president of Liquidity Trim Tabs, an investment newsletter. Buying less, selling more...
...though counterintuitive) signal that executives believe stock prices have gone too high is the recent wave of bank megamergers. Little or no cash will change hands, only some high-priced stocks. Had any of the parties involved been required to lay out real money, they would have walked. Biderman also notes that the value of stock swaps relative to cash mergers is off the charts this year. "They don't want to buy shares with cash," he says of acquisitive CEOs. "They'd rather sell their own stock to make the deal." In similar fashion, companies now include hefty sums...
...does it with his customary brooding grace. It's the duty of a lot of good character actors to keep driving her in the opposite direction, toward the end of her very taut tether. It is the very great pleasure of this movie (well written by Ann Biderman) that its truly haunting suspense derives not from Smilla's conflict with her external enemies but from her own demons...
...movie mixes grunge and glitter in the way of a Steven Bochco TV show, which is understandable, since director Gregory Hoblit has won a bunch of Emmys for his work on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law. The script, by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman, also partakes of Bochco's strengths and limitations--good dialogue, firmly etched secondary characters (nicely played by John Mahoney and Frances McDormand, among others) but not much suspense. The only potentially scary guy--Edward Norton's weirdo defendant--is safely behind bars most of the time. Diverting without being fully absorbing, this is a film...
Screenwriters Ann Biderman and David Madsen are copycats too, primarily of Thomas Harris' terrific novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Copycat is also faithful to other melodramatic conventions. The sympathetic gay friend will be killed. The brilliant schemer will go implausibly stupid at the climax. And the filmmakers will forget what Harris knows: that there is great horror and pathos inside these creatures. A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste...