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...never guess that from his career path. Within a year after graduation, Ebbers chucked a job as a high school basketball coach to manage a garment warehouse. In 1974 he borrowed money from co-workers to buy a motel-restaurant in Colonel, Miss., and went on to own nine Best Westerns. Not good enough. "You don't get much cash flow in the hotel business," Ebbers later told Investors Business Daily. "My family was tired of going to the store with a financial statement instead of money." His family is the only thing Ebbers won't talk about; he refuses...
While filming a scene in which Nolte, who plays a hard-driving, glory-hunting lieutenant colonel, is chewed out by a superior over the phone (for Nolte's benefit, John Cusack improvises a verbal reaming from behind the camera), Malick's directions seem to consist solely of "Take a pause," "Look over at the river," and "Let's do another one." As the number of takes for this simple scene runs into the high teens, Nolte seems to get more and more flustered, losing concentration and blowing his lines (Cusack: "Are you incompetent, Colonel?" Nolte: "Yes I'm incompetent. What...
...faced (a kind of Bob Dole for the stage), and doesn't quite tap into the semi-tragic nature of his character's self-imprisonment, though the contrast still comes through starkly enough when juxtaposed with Eliza's growing self-awareness. Ron Ritchell, as a rather subdued, Dr. Watsonish Colonel Pickering, unfortunately comes off as a gentler but paler copy of Higgins...
...nuclear bomb by a Serbian terrorist. Every nation wants to defuse the bomb since the terrorist says he will use it to blow up the United Nations. But in Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...
...Shermeister, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Air Force with multiple degrees, said his experience has been "exciting [and] very loaded...