Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes a film is so exhilarating, it's exhausting. Big Trouble in Little China describes itself as a "mystical action-adventure-comedy-kung-f u- monster-ghost story." It is plenty savvy in deploying plot devices from a dozen hoary genres while playing up the absurdities in the familiar Deadpan Facetious style. A Frisco truck driver (Kurt Russell) and his Chinese-American pal (Dennis Dun) amble into a battle beyond death fought by a 2,000-year-old bad guy (James Hong) and a Yoda-esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes...
Some disgruntled Hollywood figure whom Welles had crossed in the past? Perhaps the old rumors are true, and the ghost of Herman Mankiewicz, Welles' undercredited collaborator on Citizen Kane, still walks among...
...disease; the Murphys' adolescent son died there shortly after working on an etching of his visitor, Ernest Hemingway. But many others returned to life on the outside, often as uneasily as Percy's protagonist in The Moviegoer, "no more able to be in the world than Banquo's ghost." Like the disease it fought, Saranac was eventually undone by antibiotics. But for some 70 years, it was a rare arena that managed to encompass the arts of healing and high drama. So does the book that bears its name...
...agent, Robert Friedrick, is accused of falsely stating that the FBI had authorized Presser to commit the crimes he is now charged with: embezzling union money as salaries for people holding no-show "ghost" jobs in Cleveland's Teamster Local 507. While the indictment of an FBI man was an embarrassment to the agency, the action against Presser had no immediate effect on him or his union...
...part led the Justice Department to suspend an attempt to indict Presser last summer and stirred speculation about interference from the White House. (Presser has been one of Ronald Reagan's few labor supporters.) Cases were dropped against two men who had earlier been convicted of participating in the ghost-employee scheme. Friedrick, who is accused of covering up a meeting with Presser and his associates to stymie the original investigation, could face up to 25 years, imprisonment...