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...Grimm is to blend the warring moods of fantasy and cynicism. The story must create a land of outsize heroes and villains yet comment ironically on the unhappy state of a land that needs them. The tone must be grandly facetious to accommodate believers as well as skeptics. William Goldman tried all this in his 1973 novel The Princess Bride. His narrative had all the proper ingredients and all the right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much...
...established a major beachhead in California, where four of the top ten banks are now Japanese owned: California First Bank, Sanwa Bank, Bank of California and Sumitomo Bank of California. On Wall Street, Japan's Sumitomo Bank shelled out $500 million for a 12.5% share of profits in the Goldman, Sachs investment-banking firm, while Nippon Life Insurance paid $538 million for a 13% slice of Shearson Lehman...
...result of Mackintosh's invitation to Sondheim and Librettist James Goldman to "have a wee think" about revamping the show, the pair has come up with four new songs and a completely new book. According to a program note by the creators, "scarcely a line of dialogue remains from the original." The central story of two couples, old friends, who married the wrong partners used to end in nervous breakdowns for some of them; it now closes with self- understanding and at least hints of reconciliation. What felt in 1971 like a put-down of old-fashioned musicals for their...
...inside Fox's heart and mind, Sheen spent a couple of days talking with David Brown, a former Goldman Sachs trader who pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in 1986. "A lot of these guys on Wall Street consider themselves to be warriors," reports Sheen. "They say, 'I'm going off to war today,' and they're not kidding." Sheen had an easier time relating to his real-life dad in the role of his onscreen father, an airline mechanic who senses the hidden price of his son's success. Hannah had difficulty even liking her character. She plays...
Indeed, some Fed watchers think Greenspan may become more influential than Volcker has been, at least recently. Says Robert Hormats, a vice president of the Goldman Sachs investment firm and an economic adviser in four Administrations: "The markets have made a mistake if they think the White House may have more influence on the Fed. It will be the other way around." Hormats' reasoning: Volcker's commanding manner and banker's jargon may have been off-putting to Reagan. Greenspan, on the other hand, has a gift for rendering economic concepts in the kind of uncomplicated language beloved...