Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carnelle (Holly Hunter) determines to win the Miss Firecracker Contest as a way of standing up to the mocking townspeople and claiming some of the limelight that illuminates her chic, snooty cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Two men, Carnelle's sometime lover Mac Sam (Scott Glenn) and Elain's wild brother Delmount (Tim Robbins), act as a geek chorus to the drama, but, typically in a Henley play, the real conflict is between young women clawing each other for respect, attention and love...
...bank notes. As much as 3,000 lbs. of foreign currency arrives daily at Zurich's Kloten airport. Much of the cash represents earnings from tourism, which each country's banks exchange for local currency. Swiss authorities are investigating charges that Lebanese currency dealer Barkev Magharian, 35, and his brother Jean, 44, both of whom are now in custody, took advantage of that market by laundering around $1 billion, a sum that allegedly included drug profits. At least some of the proceeds were reportedly sent back to drug kingpins in Los Angeles...
...Creative Artists Agency, headed by superagent Michael Ovitz. Ovitz was Belushi's agent, and his company's star-packed client list includes several of the comedian's friends who were angered by Woodward's book, among them fellow Saturday Night Live star Dan Aykroyd, SNL producer Lorne Michaels and brother Jim Belushi. Reluctance to alienate Ovitz and his clients, claim the film's producers, is what frightened most of Hollywood away. "In this town," says co-producer Edward Feldman (Save the Tiger, Witness), "the word was put out that this was a project not to be touched...
...stacks of tiny Ziploc bags. "Wasn't that '81, hon?" Taking a mumble for confirmation, Big John peers beyond the cat stretched out in the sunlight on the dashboard. "There are 150 narcs running around out there, and everybody is in a stampede to roll over. Everybody and his brother is distributing Product, and it's getting to be a dog-eat-dog world." His face assumes a mournful set: "I've been ripped off by my friends big time; they get down into the bag, on the pure stuff, and get paranoid, and right away they want...
Really a tragicomedy, Measure for Measure was Shakespeare's last comedy before Othello, King Lear and Hamlet. Angelo, deputy to the Duke, sentences Claudio to death for fornication. Claudio's sister, Isabella, goes to Angelo to beg for mercy; he agrees to free her brother only at the exchange of her virginity. In this drama of masquerades, complications and sexual reparte, a twelve-member cast stars at Winthrop House through next weekend...