Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called, just gets more and more evil. Burning villages? A lark. Killing cattle? Child's play. Rape is a little more satisfactory, and torture is really quite charming entertainment. Treachery, of course, adds a subtle spice to purely physical violence. Caton-Jones may overdo the characterization a bit, but Roth's performance steals the show, no doubt about it. Lucky Archie, thankfully unkilted, gets some juicy background to play on. He is a bitter bastard son, his possible fathers narrowed down to three. The material may be good, but it is Roth's control of cold eye and practiced diction...
...film's humor is as stale as the characterization. There's a bit about tickets to the Ice Capades. That's funny, you see, because nobody likes the Ice Capades. Then there's the Callaghan family business: estate furniture--which spawns the movie's funniest quip: "We're in the estate furniture business. We buy furniture from dead people...
When you're hanging around with eight or 10 graduate students and you happen to look a bit older than 16 yourself, it's not hard to get served in Vancouver. In fact, it's hard not to get served. But how was I to know? I was still afraid of being carded...
With all this information--and much more--handled by FoodPro, it was a bit of a problem when the company that owned it announced their impending bankruptcy last December. Harvard Dining Services, along with about 25 other universities which also depended on the program, was in big trouble...
...last January, while you guys were taking exams, I was flying all over the country negotiating to buy this company on behalf of all the other schools. None of the other ones could do it because they didn't have the necessary capital. I felt a bit like Ivan Boeksy or some other wheeler-dealer...