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...easy call. Popular opinion would suggest that Ford could pick up a lot of customers who either are worried about Toyota's problems or simply aren't able to get the vehicle they want because sales have been halted. Ford has been the subject of enormously favorable news coverage this year, ranging from vehicle awards to headlines celebrating its return to profitability - Ford is the only U.S. automaker to report an annual profit in the past several years. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...M.B.A., Crowley quits his job as a management consultant and moves his family to be near doctors working on a cure. He soon founds his own biotech company to steer and spur the doctors' research. (In the movie, the medics are compacted into the single, ornery person of Harrison Ford.) Do they find a therapy in time to save Crowley's children? That's the film's suspense factor - a ticking time bomb attached to two winsome kids. (See pictures of Harrison Ford's career in film...
...They observe the story's complexities and keep the finger-pointing to a minimum. They pump up the tension by obliging John, like a thriller hero caught between the law and the bad guys, to battle both the long odds of finding a treatment and the fiery truculence of Ford's Dr. Stonehill. But while Ford growls and prowls like Darth Vader advancing on Han Solo, Fraser keeps the story anchored in reality. Meredith Droeger does too: as the Crowleys' afflicted daughter, she's a smart little bundle of fighting spirit...
...allegedly neglected to replace a crucial tire spacer on the aircraft in maintenance work four days before the crash. Continental is the only company charged, along with the firm's former welder John Taylor, who fixed the titanium strip to the Continental DC-10, and his supervisor Stanley Ford. The French are also going after their own. In the same trial, Concorde's former head of testing Henri Perrier and former chief engineer Jacques Herubel as well as France's retired civil aviation chief Claude Frantzen are also charged with involuntary manslaughter for having failed to detect and fix faults...
Immediately behind Extraordinary Measures was the indie-vibed Crazy Heart, which earned $2,250,000 on 239 screens - fewer than a tenth of the venues for Ford's Edsel. Crazy Heart, with Jeff Bridges as an aging country singer reappraising his misspent life, was originally intended go to directly to TV, yet it's now a warm-to-hot item, thanks to Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild trophies for its star. Bridges, 60, is one of Hollywood's most liked and admired leading men. Most durable too: he received his first Academy Award nomination back in 1972 (for Supporting...