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Then put a time machine in a DeLorean sports car and make it run on plutonium. Then create Arab terrorists who will kill for the plutonium and will blow away anything that stands in their way; including Marty and the mad Doctor...
This is where Back to the Future becomes a Spielberg movie, and where the film picks up speed. Doc Brown is killed by the arab terrorists, and Marty escapes--via the DeLorean--back to 1955. He may be stuck there, however, because he is out of plutonium...
...saga of John Z. DeLorean is still unfolding, but the books are already starting to appear. Can the movie be far behind? Dream Maker (G.P. Putnam; 455 pages; $16.95) by Ivan Fallen and James Srodes was first in the stores. Due out next month is a more authoritative account by Detroit Journalist Hillel Levin, Grand Delusions (Viking; 336 pages; $15.95). Levin reveals that while DeLorean's sports-car company was heading toward insolvency, he charged the firm $78,100 for expenses in moving from Detroit to New York City, gave executives credit cards for Tiffany and "21" Club...
Levin does not add substantially to the public record about DeLorean's arrest for cocaine dealing, but the author makes a strong case for DeLorean's systematic looting of his infant firm. Levin charges that he used a shell corporation in Geneva called GPD Services to siphon off $17.65 million. No trace of the money has turned up, but the suspicion is that DeLorean walked away with at least some...
This investigative biography also takes a little of the shine off DeLorean's career at General Motors. Despite his genuine flair for engineering, says the author, DeLorean appropriated other people's achievements for his own. No one who knows will say whether DeLorean quit or was fired in 1973. He had clearly infuriated the GM brass with his high-profile Hollywood lifestyle and outside business interests. But when DeLorean left, he did not do badly. Levin reports that his parting golden handshake with GM included a valuable Cadillac franchise and a year's extension...