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...attempts to build a character who is simultaneously out of touch with reality but also accessible to the audience's experiences break down quickly. Delichatsios pulls at her pajama-like clothing to indicate nervousness. She speaks in a stilted and unnatural monotone. Her eyes stare at one object, then dart to another. While she is supposed to be withdrawn, her body language is confrontational. She fails to represent realistically her character's psychological profile...
...June, Herbert Haft kicked Gloria and their older son Robert off the Dart Group board for allegedly conspiring to speed him out the door. Directors then fired Robert, 40, as president of Dart and replaced him with his brother Ronald, 34, who had headed a subsidiary...
...million in cash and stock that he claimed was owed him under employment contracts. And in divorce court, Gloria sued for legal separation from her husband of 45 years. Charging that Herbert had beaten her, conducted extramarital affairs and engaged in financial chicanery, Gloria demanded control of either Dart or the family's real estate company. Responding through a lawyer, Haft denied any wrongdoing and accused Gloria and Robert of forming an "unholy partnership" to seize control of the family's holdings...
...conflict first flared at an April board meeting when Robert, who was becoming eager to succeed his father as Dart chairman, clashed with him over plans to expand a single store. While Herbert wanted to increase the company's Total Beverage liquor operations, Robert pointed out that the only existing Total outlet was operating at a loss. The split widened in May when Gloria Haft, 66, defended her son at a Crown Books meeting and beseeched her husband to end the quarrel...
...have had trouble comprehending Herbert's subsequent virulence. Sources close to the family surmise that the elder Haft, who had heart problems in 1991, regards his son's eagerness to take over as an unwelcome reminder of his own mortality. The Donnybrook also puzzles investors on Wall Street, where Dart stock, a highflyer in the '80s, has been languishing. Beset by growing competition and the sluggish economy, Dart saw its profits fall to $3.5 million in its latest fiscal year, down 44% from the previous period...