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...Vernon Hightower, who owns a bar teetering toward bankruptcy, is a congenital optimist. Nadine, his estranged wife, sees life too clearly to find much hope in it. Cute couple for a caper film -- maybe even a fun couple, game to turn love-hate into love-great and to con the local crooks. Well, no. As played by Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger, they are an "un" couple: unsuitable emotionally, underdeveloped dramatically. The picture is plenty handsome, and Glenne Headly and Rip Torn have some fun as a lost lady and the meanest guy in Austin, Texas. Still, Nadine, an agreeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fun Couple or Un Couple? | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...thinking. Here comes another pistol-packing, Bible-banging, right-wing weirdo who believes every single word in the Gospels and will try to plead, con or force you into pistol-packing, Bible-banging and right-wing voting...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Searching for Religion's Middle Ground | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

SENTENCED. Joe Hunt, 27, founder and leader of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club, an organization of scions of wealthy Los Angeles families; to life in prison without parole; after being convicted of murdering Beverly Hills Con Man Ron Levin, 42, who had bilked Hunt of $4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 20, 1987 | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...There are advantages in the series of con-connections that you make with friends and people that you know. It gives you a background on how to deal with people, doors tend to open more, and you tend to meet a broader base of people," Clark says of the Harvard connection...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: Winning the Numbers Game at the State House | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...Lukas also characterizes Savadove as brilliant: "a con-man of the first degree." So, Lukas says, when Savadove told him that he intentionally delayed Kelly's arrival in the Square, he believed...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Looking Back 35 Years: The 'Possum Caused a Riot | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

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