Word: greed
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Your official commencement speaker tackles the big themes, tells you to abjure greed, to play fair, to serve your community, to know thyself. Your more personally devoted commencement speaker agrees with all that...
...have a bigger star than Sylvester Stallone," boasts Lawrence Gleason, marketing chief for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the movie-production company owned by Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis. And who is that superluminary? "Greed," says Gleason. The base emotion has a starring role in the U.S. opening of De Laurentiis' $10 million flick, Million Dollar Mystery, which premieres June 12. Mystery is the first movie to offer its audience a shot at a $1 million prize for solving the film's lost-treasure puzzle...
...what of the future? Some say that salaries can only go up, due to inflation, prosperity, or just plain greed...
...since the reckless 1920s has the business world seen such searing scandals. White-collar scams abound: insider trading, money laundering, greenmail. Greed combined with technology has made stealing more tempting than ever. Result: what began as the decade of the entrepreneur is becoming the age of the pinstriped outlaw...
...voice his concern about the controversial practice of "colorizing" black-and-white movies. Joined by fellow Directors Milos & Forman and Sydney Pollack, Allen protested the computerized coloring of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life and Casablanca, calling the result "cheesy, artificial symbols of one society's greed." Allen was equally plainspoken about how he felt on becoming a father for the first time. The auteur, 51, said that his longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow, 42, had become pregnant "by accident" and that he has no plans to marry or move in with the actress, who already has eight children...