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...forgot to hire a story editor. The incidents in a comedy-thriller can be implausible but never absurd, and Legal Eagles is pocked with absurdities. Trapped in a warehouse about to be blown to shards, klutzy Assistant D.A. Tom Logan (Redford) and plucky Lawyer Laura Kelly (Winger) find a forklift tractor (and the keys), jump on, start it and crash through a metal door, all in five seconds. Logan, who has made tabloid headlines by being caught in bed with a spacey artist (Daryl Hannah) the night she is supposed to have killed her ex-lover, is allowed...
Among this urban detritus, something else is moving. It looks like another trash cube--but with binocular eyes, forklift plates for arms and Caterpillar tracks to navigate the rough terrain. The thing is called a Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-Class--WALL?E--and its job is to clean up the mess of consumerism run amok. It's also apparently the last of its kind still functioning...
SOME CHARGE YOU ARE MOTIVATED BY ANTI-AMERICANISM. I've known the U.S. for a long time. I visit often, I've studied there, worked as a forklift operator for Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis and as a soda jerk at Howard Johnson's. I've hitchhiked across the whole United States; I even worked as a journalist and wrote a story for the New Orleans Times-Picayune on the front page. I know the U.S. perhaps better than most French people, and I really like the United States. I've made many excellent friends there, I feel good there...
...filed by the Securities and Exchange commission, Plotkin and former Goldman Sachs analyst David Pajcin organized a “widespread and brazen international scheme of serial insider trading...resulting in at least $6.7 million of illicit gains.” The complaint says that Plotkin and Pajcin paid forklift operator Nickolaus Shuster a flat fee for him to relay the contents of BusinessWeek’s “Inside Wall Street” column. Shuster had access to advance copies of BusinessWeek because he worked at a Wisconsin plant where the weekly magazine is printed. The analysts helped...
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Vultaggio prefers the forklift to the corner office because he is more at home on the warehouse floor. "Some may call that micromanaging," says Vultaggio of his hands-on approach. "I don't know what that is. To me, it's just normal...