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There are plenty of subsidiary characters worth their own movie, like the suburban drug dealer (Eric Stoltz) and his trippy wife (Rosanna Arquette) -- a married couple for the strung-out '90s. Part of Pulp Fiction's fun is that memorable weirdos keep popping up in the second and third hour. Part of the movie's skill is that familiar characters reveal new depths. By the end, Jackson's Jules -- in a "transitional period" from L.A.'s baddest malefactor to Tarantino's idea of masculine sanctity -- has commandeered the film. But even Jackson, brilliant in the role, knows that all good...
Indianapolis -- A would-be drug user was nabbed in June after inadvertently dialing a police detective instead of his drug dealer's beeper. The detective played along with the conversation and later busted the caller after posing as his supplier's associate...
...juiciest news last week appeared in the tabloid News of the World, which claimed Diana had made some 300 hang-up calls to a well-connected London art dealer, Oliver Hoare, 48. Hoare feared the calls were the work of terrorists who knew his business is in Middle Eastern art. But according to the tabloid, a police investigation showed they were made from phones in Kensington Palace, where Diana lives, from pay phones near the palace, from Diana's car phone and from the home of her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale...
Each of the Big Three has begun taking steps to try to improve its dealers' sales-floor behavior. This spring Ford sent out a list of directions on how to treat the buying public, including such steps as "customers courteously acknowledged within two minutes of arrival," "test drive offered to all customers," and "advisory relationship established by knowledgeable sales consultant who listens to customers, identifies needs and ensures needs are met." Chrysler offers financial incentives; to earn the highest $300 factory payment on each unit, a Chrysler dealer must rate in the 95th percentile or better on Chrysler's internal...
...honesty is to break out across U.S. showrooms, it will have to do so as a grass-roots movement. There is only so much muscle the Big Three can apply to change its dealers' ways. To own one of the 23,000 dealerships in the U.S. is to be a member of a clannish, well-to-do and often fiercely independent society. Dealerships are regularly traded or sold among friends or in-laws; 40% of them at present were inherited from a family member. Oldsmobile general manager John Rock, who is the son of a Chevrolet dealer and whose wife...