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...Broadway dancers and Hollywood hopefuls, even the largest advertising agencies these days are submitting to the grueling and humiliating auditions known in the industry as account reviews. Backer, the longtime imagemaker for Campbell Soups and other major brands, beat long odds: 85% to 90% of agencies called on the carpet for their work in such reviews lose the account...
...that as it may, the movie, which Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) eventually decided to direct himself, starts out in a low, ingratiating gear. It looks like a "buddy romp," as Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, puts it. Thelma is married to a carpet salesman named Darryl, who represents everything stupid and stupefying about traditional masculinity, keeping Thelma in a state of near childish dependency. Her best pal, Louise (Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women...
...humming. Amazing baldness cures and miracle weight-loss plans. Kitchen tools and anticellulite treatments. Self-help courses and get-rich-quick schemes. Stick around: you'll learn all about Citrus Miracle, a spray cleaner made from "100% natural oranges," able to wipe out everything from oven grease to carpet stains. Or share a few teary minutes with Richard Simmons as he travels the country getting testimonials from converts to his Deal-a-Meal diet plan. Or learn how fulfilling your life can be with the Brain Supercharger, a set of self- improvement tapes ($149.95) that promise to raise your...
Last fall, when Cambridge received a visit by Saudi Arabian Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud--whose shady past included allegations of kidnapping and police bribery--Harvard shamelessly rolled out the red carpet. With Harvard's approval, dozens of University police officers moonlighted as private security guards for the prince, ignoring attacks on Harvard students by the prince's bodyguards and short-staffing the Harvard Police Department. Harvard finally banned its officers from working for the prince--after he had donated millions to the Medical School...
...late. "From Noah's friends at Dianetics" read the card that accompanied a bouquet of flowers at Lottick's funeral. Yet no Scientology staff members bothered to show up. A week earlier, local church officials had given Lottick's parents a red-carpet tour of their center. A cult leader told Noah's parents that their son had been at the church just hours before he disappeared - but the church denied this story as soon as the body was identified. True to form, the cult even haggled with the Lotticks over $3,000 their son had paid for services...