Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actress, anonymity guaranteed. But there may be more urgent Hollywood news about Hunt. Yes, she's now a big star, winner of Emmy, Golden Globe and MTV Movie awards. But on the evidence, she is also a caring, clever person who loves her folks and her shaggy Samoyed dog Johnny, belongs to no cult, lives in the unchic San Fernando Valley, drives a boring black Volvo sedan, loves opera, listens to the dictates of her conscience, hears the ticking of her biological clock, protects her privacy as you would if you were famous and shrugs off her exhausting...
...terrors of the slave ships' notorious Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame that Amistad's release has been polluted with charges of plagiarism, for what's on the screen has an emotional and moral weight that...
...comedy called Killing Mrs. Tingle. The script got optioned, and the failing Los Angeles actor spent his windfall to repay college loans and lease an Infiniti. But Tingle languished, and by 1995 Williamson was facing the cruel truth: he was not a rising star but a 30-year-old dog walker and word-processing temp, with escalating debt and an old teacher who might have been right...
...dog lovers aren't taking this kick in the rear without a yelp. "I don't think the model is threatened," says Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool Website, where an estimated 200,000 "fools" play some version of the Dow dogs. Stan Craig, head of UIT sales at Merrill Lynch (which controls $10 billion in Dow-dog assets), notes that a buy-and-hold investor in the first "Select 10" UIT in 1991 would be up 184% by now, vs. 171% for the Dow. But clearly the advantages first noted by O'Higgins have eroded. Morningstar...
...trend is toward lower rates. O'Higgins plans to ride the trend with zeros for at least another year. Such market timing is fraught with risk. But then so is riding a sky-high stock market. If beating the Dow is your pet cause, give this new dog a look. The old one may be lovable, but it doesn't hunt the way it used...