Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a South Korean businessman expressed interest last April in being photographed with Bill Clinton, the Democratic National Committee was only too happy to sell him a $50,000 ticket to a presidential fund raiser. At first the deal worked precisely the way these things are supposed to. John Lee's company bought not one ticket but five; then Lee attended the dinner with several associates and walked away with his pictorial reward. All seemed fine until two weeks ago, when a reporter from the Los Angeles Times phoned the D.N.C. with a question. Why, the reporter wanted to know...
Cannon and Lee drew up a list of wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...
What an auspicious beginning it had: a captivating plot that centered on the murder of a 15-year-old prostitute; suspects who included a malevolently elegant businessman, a sleazy psychiatrist and a drug-addicted movie star; and, in the starring role, impassioned defense attorney Teddy Hoffman, played by Daniel Benzali as a man of such unwavering rectitude that he made lawyer jokes seem as gauche as postmortem Nixon bashing. And yet with all that going for it, Steven Bochco's Murder One finished last season as the 74th-ranked show in network prime time and seemed fated for dismissal...
...small businessman," Carvahlo said...
...self-parody, Neeson has made his mark in Hollywood as a paragon of restrained intensity. In Ethan Frome, the 1993 movie version of Edith Wharton's novel, Neeson manages to convey a lifetime of thwarted longing in one gaze. In a Schindler scene that has Neeson's debonair businessman surveying the destruction of the Cracow ghetto, we see in the actor's perplexed expression something quite remarkable: a man's humanity slowly surfacing...