Word: crs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nicholas Van Orton, super-rich investment banker, too busy to pay attention to his ex-wife--"She married a pediatrician or a gynecologist, or a pediatric gynecologist"--and too stuffy to bond with his rakehell brother Conrad (Sean Penn). As a birthday present, Conrad gives Nick a card for CRS, Consumer Recreation Services, an outfit that devises elaborate, personalized games for select clients. And now Nick is the lucky--or doomed--fellow chosen to play. Nick...
Perhaps a relative wants to relieve Nick of his fortune. Or CRS is the ultimate evil conglomerate, or the prank of some zillionaires with a severe weird streak. In The Game anything is possible. But not everything is plausible. By the end, you must accept that dozens of people are willing to put Nick in jeopardy--and that other people, bless 'em, have a Job-like ability to be the butt of a cosmic joke...
Ozell Sutton was one of three agents from the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Justice Department who were at the motel that evening. Sutton's roommate at the Lorraine was another CRS agent, James Laue, who rushed from their room onto the balcony with the towel that Ralph David Abernathy used to cushion King's head. According to Sutton, he was never questioned by the FBI and, to the best of his knowledge, neither was Laue, who has since died. Neither of them saw anything, says Sutton, but he's troubled by the fact that the FBI never tried...