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...McCandless (Emile Hirsch) graduated from Emory University in 1992 and decided he needed a little time to himself before joining the bourgeois lockstep. It is a little difficult to see what's bugging him. His father (William Hurt) is a successful, self-made businessman, who is perhaps a little too sternly conventional in his views. His mother (Marcia Gay Harden) is a perhaps a little too softly so and, yes, there are strains in their marriage. But they are scarcely monsters, and the values they represent, though stodgy, are not exactly oppressive. Plenty of young people have slithered through...
...agreeable boss in the midwestern wheat fields; he paddles prettily and adventurously down the Colorado River; he joins an older, good-natured couple in a commune; he eventually comes across an older man, a retired soldier (Hal Holbrook in a lovely performance), who becomes the fully understanding surrogate father he has always sought. Eventually he attains the wilderness of his dreams, settles into an abandoned bus, and lives out the winter in increasingly desperate circumstances. Whereupon...
...department store?assuming it would be sold off in pieces once it was put on the block in January 2006, after Federated merged with May Co.?Baker saw a chance to revitalize an iconic brand name. He and his three NRDC Equity partners (one of whom is his father Robert Baker) bought the property for about $1.1 billion, a small stake in Federated's $27 billion business in annual sales. "What we liked about Lord & Taylor was that it had great DNA, a very solid management team and a large amount of spectacular real estate," says Baker. National Realty...
...only child of Robert and Beverly Galanter, he says he grew up in idyllic circumstances in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, N.J. He speaks proudly of the work his father and paternal grandparents did in the area. "My dad's mother was the first female optometrist in the U.S.," he says. "My dad worked for his mom as an optometrist. He's still working...
...father plans to celebrate his 90th birthday next month. Instead of continuing the line of optometrists in the family, Galanter originally planned to spend his days on the links. "I was in line to become a professional golfer," he says. "I probably grew up in the only Jewish family whose parents did not want their son to become a doctor or lawyer." But O.J. is probably glad Galanter didn't choose to swing clubs for money...