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Your tale of two troubled banks [May 12] does a great injustice to two remarkable men: Robert Abboud and Harvey Kapnick. To characterize their association as "Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula" is inaccurate and unjust...
...bank's profits nosedived $14 million in the first quarter. Late last year Abboud brought into the bank Harvey Kapnick, who had left the $499,000-a-year job as chairman of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm after a policy dispute with partners. It was like Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula. Kapnick had an almost equally truculent style. The two were soon clashing, particularly about who was running banking operations...
Amelie Syberberg follows this cue, in the last scenes of the film, stripping down to a white, flowing dress, hurrying past a projection of Frankenstein's bride. She sits on the moon, the stars above--out of human reach--she sits with her hands over her ears...
...admiration for the creator of the 2,000-Year-Old Man, but it is undermined by the portentous remark that "by playing a character who was immortal, Brooks may have staked his principal claim to immortality as a comedian." And why, after recalling the freebooting hilarity of Young Frankenstein, does Tynan resonate like a Viennese psychiatrist? "We have seen that Brooks is driven by a fear, amounting to hatred, of mortality; and what is Young Frankenstein but the story of a man who succeeds in defeating death...
...like that scene in the "Bride of Frankenstein" when the monster talks," he said. "Look, people are afraid to come forward...