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Finally, it is the work of two brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, who have, professionally speaking, rolled themselves into a single, significant auteur in the course of just seven years and four films, in the process developing cult and critical followings of large and vociferous proportions...
...blast that is hitting the industry, the economic recession that began last summer represents the "wind-chill factor," says Young & Rubicam chairman Peter Georgescu. Ad spending, which rose only 2.4% last year, to $128.6 billion, is expected to increase just 3.1% this year, according to McCann-Erickson's Robert Coen, the industry's leading forecaster. In order to cut costs and ride out the slump, Madison Avenue has trimmed hundreds of professionals from its ranks during the past year -- and the / cutbacks are far from over...
Believers have sought the saint's help in household matters for centuries. St. Joseph, a carpenter, was handy around the house, after all. The Catholic Church has no objection to such appeals for intercession, but brokers, complained Father James Coen, head of the Catholic Information Center, to the New York Daily News, "are turning this into a first-class sales gimmick." Successful sellers are advised to exhume the statue and enshrine it in their new home. Co-op owners who have no yards may have to pray to someone else: St. Jude, patron of lost causes...
MILLER'S CROSSING and GOODFELLAS. A pair of aces about the Mob. The first film, from Joel and Ethan Coen, has gangsters of the '20s spitting out aphorisms and wrestling with ethics. The second, Martin Scorsese's bullet train of a cautionary comedy, shows the Mafia in its rapacious decline. Both make offers no moviegoer should refuse...
Leave it to the Coen brothers -- the writer-producer-director team who were the film finds of the '80s -- to discover ferocious drama in words, character, atmosphere. Their inspiration for Miller's Crossing was a pair of Dashiell Hammett novels: Red Harvest (which provided the milieu of a corrupt city ruled by warring gangsters) and The Glass Key (which provided the plot of an aging boss and his young adviser involved with the same woman). To this blend the Coens have brought a teeming cast of sharpies, most of them spectacularly, thoughtfully venal. They speak wittily but often...