Word: caper
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...down with Woody this past weekend at the posh Regency Hotel in New York City to discuss his new film, Small Time Crooks-a fun, fluffy caper that he's taking to colleges around the country for question and answer sessions with the students. He'll visit Harvard's Film Archive on Tuesday night...
...Georgetown caper underscores how investors can be duped by outright amateurs. Ringleader Colt, 24, attracted 9,000 subscribers to a website he called Fast-Trades.com according to court papers. He used the site to issue stock picks, eventually singling out four penny stocks in which he and his friends had bought up thousands of shares at rock-bottom prices...
...Russian market. Since August 1998, when the country suddenly devalued the ruble and defaulted on $40 billion in foreign debt, notes Browder, "Russia's been cut off from the capital markets, and thus there's been no incentive [for local businessmen] to behave"--hence ploys like the Sidanko caper. But those who have played Russia's market for years know it is ruled by a simple equation: high returns rarely come without equally high risks. "One can't be blind to Russia's problems," says a British corporate security consultant who advises Western companies. "But one can certainly still...
Lainie Kazan and Iggy Pop will serenade you with Auld Lang Syne as you and yours suck the last dregs from your jeroboam of Roederer Cristal and giant tube worms and deep-sea shrimp (tres joli!) caper about the volcanic sulfide chimneys outside your stateroom's bay windows...
...Russo tends to hide her beauty (even though, ironically enough, she once was a supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric. And the plot of the caper isn't so shabby either; even though we expect stud and vamp to unite in the end, there's enough twists and turns to cloud the possibility. I have no doubt that they'll remake this film again in five years, so here is my recipe for another blockbuster. Keep...