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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handling huge amounts of other people's money not only shows a reckless attitude but is also possibly a payback to capitalism for past sins against working-class people. Whatever the motivation, it is vital for banks and financial institutions to find ways to protect themselves against such crusaders. Claus Faye-Thilesen Drammen, Norway COMPANIES, IN THEIR AVARICE, ARE IGNORING age and experience in favor of ego and ambition. And look at the results. Ann G. McDonald Omaha, Nebraska EVERY DOLLAR THAT LEESON LOST WAS gained by someone else. Somewhere there are many happy, newly rich people. It is doubtful...
Once a year, though, like a princess who has been sleeping in rags, the town stirs itself to recall its grand traditions.The grimace crinkles into a smile, the Grinch is transformed into Santa Claus -- and the rest of the country pays homage. For New York is Christmas Central. Manhattan owns this glitziest and most sentimental of seasons, beginning with Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and culminating in Times Square on New Year...
...three kids to the mix and helped turn Home Improvement into TV's biggest family-show hit of the '90s. Allen's first movie went through a similar Disneyfication. The original script, by Steve Rudnick and Leo Benvenuti, was a dark fantasy about a man who accidentally shoots Santa Claus. Eight drafts later, with a more benign death scene and the addition of the father-son relationship, it became a cuddly holiday family film...
Some attractions know no cultural bounds. They are taken up by different people and made into tales of their own, like the story of the Messiah or of Santa Claus. Or, now, even the infamous John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt...
Certainly Attenborough has the more agreeable role, since his Kriss Kringle is utterly secure in his identity. He knows he really is Santa Claus and hasn't the slightest desire to be anyone else. How it is that he ends up defending himself in court when mean people question his sanity is a tale too familiar to relate once again: it has been available on television -- in a less overbearing version -- every Christmas season for almost a half-century. Given these circumstances, it betrays no secrets to say that aided by smart lawyering, shrewd media manipulation and a child...