Word: brockoviches
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...been reconfiguring the company through a flurry of mergers and asset sales, shifting the product flow from water pipes to fat data pipes. After this deal goes through, he will probably spin off the remaining hydro assets to concentrate on whether or not he should green-light Erin Brockovich Deux or make Enrique Iglesias available in MPtrois format...
Seldom do women get as lucky as Erin Brockovich, the movie law clerk played by Julia Roberts who used low-cut tops to distract important men into giving her confidential records. It's rare that women can reap the benefits of men's objectification of them without suffering some of the drawbacks too. Ms. Brockovich took a lot of risks, and for her, it paid off. But for most women, the eternal paradox of feminism kicks in: In order to be safe from the aggression and oppression of men, we need to lose our femininity and become like them, thus...
JULIA ROBERTS You're soooo Erin Brockovich. Wins scrappy legal battle to get her dotcom domain name...
Such are the dangers of taking real life to the screen. Controversies over fact-based movies like The Hurricane, Boys Don't Cry and The Insider have got big ink in the past year, but Erin Brockovich's problems slid by almost unnoticed. Residents who received settlements back in 1996 were sworn to secrecy as part of the agreement, but now their sick neighbors are piping up. "I didn't want to go see the movie, but I did. Give me a break! What s___! They depicted the lawyers as so concerned about the residents," says Diane Zuniga, whose mother...
...Brockovich and her boss, Ed Masry (played by Albert Finney in the movie), are preparing to go to trial again in November against PG&E on behalf of 140 more Hinkley residents and a group of victims in nearby Kettleman City. So many are seeking to be part of a third lawsuit--800 in all--that Masry is turning people away. Hinkley resident Susan Cordova, who claims the hysterectomy she had at 28 was necessitated by the chromium contamination but has twice been turned down by Masry, says lawyers in Los Angeles (one of whom was portrayed by Peter Coyote...