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Writer-Director Francis Veber has repeatedly insisted that The Dinner Game is founded in reality: at some point in the fairly recent past, Parisian sophisticates took to hunting down idiots, issuing straight-faced dinner invitations to them and then awarding a prize to the swell who brought the most excruciating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Fool Turns the Tables | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Francis Veber, the man behind the extraordinary comic feats La Cage Aux Folles and Les Comperes, (both eventually remade in Hollywood as The Birdcage and Father's Day) has crafted another farce: The Dinner Game. But it falls short of Veber's usual promise. Given the unsurpassable hilarity of Les...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Farce Has Cruel Pretensions | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

The rally attracted statements and endorsements from some big names, including Mayor of Cambridge Francis H. Duehay '55 and Julian Bond, chair of the national board of the NAACP.

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Living Wage Rally Draws Activist Groups | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

Having baked a layer cake of fraud, Frankel sought to add some icing by establishing a charitable trust with connections to the Vatican--the ultimate cover. Through a prominent New York City attorney, Thomas Bolan, Frankel met with Father Peter Jacobs, a gadabout clergyman who has ties to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing: One Man, Many Millions | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

While his ultimate aspirations for the St. Francis Foundation are not clear, the fund was his scam's undoing. State regulators balked when the Virgin Islands-registered Foundation sought to take over U.S. insurance companies. But by early May, when Mississippi and Tennessee regulators began seeking the return of assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing: One Man, Many Millions | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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