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...haunted us: Hannibal the Cannibal--the very, very bad doctor with a taste for Chianti, fava beans and internal human organs--in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. The critically acclaimed thriller not only salvaged Hopkins' lagging movie career, it also catapulted him from character actor to bona fide movie star. The movie won five Oscars--including Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Actress (Jodie Foster) and Best Picture--and took a huge bite out of the box office. A decade later, the slickly subdued, eerily serene Dr. Hannibal Lecter still inhabits our nightmares because Hopkins knows that as an actor...
Daimler management regarded Holden as a bona fide member of Chrysler's dream team, one reason it granted him so much autonomy. In fact, Holden, a former vice president of sales and marketing, was viewed within and without Chrysler as a junior functionary in the automaker's success in the 1990s. Schrempp did not know it, but Holden's appointment had engendered tremendous resentment at Chrysler headquarters...
Columbus Day and Yom Kippur fell on the same day this year, but the few bona fide Italian icons who portray those in desperate need of atonement were not celebrating. Cast members of HBO's THE SOPRANOS were disinvited from riding in New York City's Columbus Day parade following protests from Italian-American groups. "The Sopranos is guilty of damaging the image and character of an estimated 20 million Italian Americans by using their religion, customs and values in a violent and immoral context," claims the coalition, which recently named show creator David Chase "Pasta-tute of the Year...
...ignore them if they choose, and in the NASDAQ that's at least possible as long as those rosy earnings reports keep coming. (Heck, Gateway even said European sales were dandy.) One big session makes a bounce. Two big sessions make the beginnings of a rally. A bona fide second wind for the 10-year bull market? We'll let you know in December...
Lebed is the first minor the SEC has ever charged with securities fraud, and you may well ask, Isn't it one thing for a set of twentysomethings at work or in college to master the ole pump and dump, Net style, but quite another for a bona fide minor to get it down pat? Do we have a serious problem here...