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TUCKER Francis Ford Coppola restores Capraesque would-be capitalist Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) to legendary life in a funny-dreamy biography of the can-do automaker who discovered that prophets often end up without profits when they threaten the economic establishment...
...modesty is a virtue. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Long Island pool house, for example, combines industrial materials and delicate details. The Clayton County (Ga.) Library delivers a high concept with a relatively low budget. The finest work, from Washington's restored Union Station to the sleek Ford Probe, accommodates both pizazz and gravitas...
When James Bond roars off in the upcoming License to Kill, he'll be driving a Lincoln Continental Mark VII instead of his famous Aston Martin. It's not that No. 007 has altered his automotive allegiance. It's that Ford Motor Co., the maker of the Continental, offered free cars for the film in exchange for putting Bond behind the wheel of its top-of-the-line luxury model. So it was farewell, Aston Martin. In the lucrative world of product placement, show business and big business are seeing eye to eye about getting brand names into the movies...
WORKING GIRL. Pert secretary Melanie Griffith climbs the corporate ladder, dislodging career gal Sigourney Weaver and claiming hunky Harrison Ford in Mike Nichols' suave tale about getting it all on your own sweet terms...
Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford), a junior exec at another brokerage, is darned impressed. Here is a woman "who dresses like a woman and not like a woman dressed like she thinks a man would dress if he were a woman." Soon he and Tess are partners, hatching a big merger and pretending that a man and a woman can work closely without feeling the crackle of erotic tension. No can do, at least in the business of romantic comedy. Kevin Wade shows this in his smart screenplay, which is full of the atmospheric pressures that allow stars to collide. Director...