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...same vein, finding money to start a business isn't as simple anymore as just going to the bank. Venture capitalists have a greater role to play, and their demands are different. Michael Heller, chairman of the emerging-business and venture-capital group at Cozen and O'Connor, a Philadelphia law firm, says he gets 10 to 12 calls a month from start-up companies. According to Heller, venture capitalists also bring sophisticated knowledge and business contacts to help young entrepreneurs who may not have much business experience. But the price might include more restrictions on the emerging company...
...Florida land: Glen Ross Farms, where the salesmen once made a killing, and Glengarry Highlands, the current stake, up for grabs. The past perfect tense gives way to the present imperative now -- because there's a dogfight among the four middle-aged men whose tough job it is to cozen the consumer. The top salesman will win a Cadillac; runner-up gets a set of steak knives. And third prize? Ask the cool executive (Alec Baldwin), himself a human steak knife, who has dropped by to explain the competition. "Third prize is you're fired...
Others are beside themselves about what is being built in their place. "They're garbage," says architect Kevin Cozen. "These houses look like somebody stood there with a bag of frosting and just splattered it wherever they felt like it." The effect, not surprisingly, is that of a stage set. "I think the Spelling house is a joke," Cozen adds. "It's not a French manor. This is America in 1989. Someone like Aaron Spelling should be helping humanity by having people design things that will move the culture forward...
Hope does his best to get something risible visible, but halfway through he drowns in second banana oil. Winters' country-cozen dialect is familiar, and Phyllis Diller attacks her customary fright-wig role with the comic appeal of a black-widow spider putting away a fly. The kids are selfconscious, lending the film the aura of a mass-produced TV situation comedy. All that is missing is the commercials-and the energetic plugs for name-brand cereals and soaps more than compensate...
...vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing Dan can cozen a long-ignored son (Orson Bean) into giving him houseroom...