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Interestingly, the one characteristic linking these two Jagger films is a bizarre kind of violence. New York Times film critic Roger Greenspun noted this similarity when he described an "initial voluptuous sadism" in Performance...
...opinion is shared by many local citizens. Asserts Hank Greenspun, the publisher of the Las Vegas Sun: "If you're a Nevadan, you're guilty until proved innocent." Federal investigators adamantly defend their actions. Nevada, says retired FBI Agent Joseph Yablonsky, u who headed the Claiborne probe, has too long operated like "a foreign protectorate ... We've had to plant the American flag in the desert...
...quietly began to acquire 420,000 shares, or 5%, of the company's outstanding stock. To finance part of the purchase, he borrowed $850,000 from a City National Corp. subsidiary. Meanwhile, he and his attorney, Beverly Hills Lawyer Milton Rudin, and their allies, Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun and Wife Barbara, bought up another 5% of Webb's stock...
Mismanagement Charge. The company's directors were thoroughly alarmed at the intrusion. Last October, before the Sinatra group was rebuffed in its attempts to gain representation on the board, Greenspun filed a suit charging mismanagement and misappropriation of funds against the present corporate management. His special target: Chairman and President Robert H. Johnson. Johnson is also the executor of Del Webb's estate, which owns about a third of the stock, and the principal director of the Del Webb Foundation. "What is good for the estate is not necessarily good for the public company," argues the pugnacious Greenspun...
Fighting back hard, the company launched a suit against Sinatra, Rudin and the Greenspuns, charging that they had sought to force Webb to hire certain entertainers for the Nevada casinos and to sell certain properties. "Their allegation is absolutely untrue," says Greenspun...