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CINEMA Mike Nichols and Harrison Ford make a born-again weepie...
...businesses can conduct virtually all their banking needs, from opening up a government-guaranteed checking account to getting a mortgage, without ever having to set foot in an actual bank. Now some or all of these services are offered by insurance companies, brokerage firms and such finance companies as Ford Motor Credit and Westinghouse Credit, often at more attractive rates than banks can offer. "Banking's preserve has been invaded. There is simply nothing unique about banking any longer," notes University of California, Berkeley, economics professor James Pierce in his new book, The Future of Banking...
...their money. Firms can raise short-term cash at lower rates by selling commercial paper; for longer-term money, they can issue bonds. Even small and medium-size firms, a vital source of business for banks, have many borrowing sources. The financing arms of General Electric, General Motors and Ford, which offer loans to businesses, are among the 10 largest financial institutions...
Regarding Henry, Mike Nichols' effective, infuriating new weepie, works a cunning variation on the born-again theme. It eliminates the middleman, Death, by subjecting Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) to a gunshot wound that erases his memory. Bang!, you're a new man. The old one needed some revision. That Henry was a slick Manhattan lawyer who misused his gifts to ruin innocent men and save venal corporations. Instructed by his chic wife (Annette Bening) to apologize to their 11-year-old daughter (Mikki Allen), Henry instead scolds the dear girl in Latin. The guy barely deserves to live, until...
After his injury, Henry must be taught everything over again, from how to walk to who he is. Ford, whose face assumes the agreeable befuddlement of Mortimer Snerd, plays Henry as an eager but slightly backward child. He returns to his posh Fifth Avenue apartment as if he had been consigned to a foster home. But because his teachers are kind and patient, he becomes a new man and determines to right the wrongs he committed in his earlier life. He is like a reformed Scrooge on a very long Christmas Day. He will buy his daughter a puppy...