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...which is true and sounds more like a critical historical thesis than the edgy, absorbing movie Haynes has made. He is able to raise the melodramatic stakes. Yes, his Cathy (Julianne Moore) is drawn to her gardener (Dennis Haysbert) in the same way Jane Wyman once was to Rock Hudson. But he is now a black man, thus infinitely more threatening to suburban comity. Her husband (Dennis Quaid) is a workaholic, as emotionally absent as any Sirk hero. But he is also coming to belated terms with his long-closeted homosexuality. Haynes is opening issues here that '50s movies could...
...concert ended on a high note after an encore of “Hudson Dream.” The audience was disappointed when the exhausted group began to clear the stage after the encore, which capped off two hours of music. People covertly fought over play lists and water and a few fans tried to get backstage as the crowd slowly dissipated, too excited to leave. They had the Dec. 9 concert to anticipate and most would be on the T back to the House of Blues for more Pete Francis...
...Sunday show, which was seen in more than 10 million homes, opened with the news that the American Studies department chair at the fictional Hudson University would be retiring...
...Hudson sifted through contract language that he called "virtually incomprehensible" and found "two basic structural flaws" that were "wholly inconsistent with normally accepted standards of banking conduct." Hudson calculated that Citibank, as a result, was paid more than twice as much in interest and fees as it would have received under its initial proposal to Trintomar: a total of $21.1 million in fees and interest on a loan of, effectively, $61.5 million...
...surplus lending was, in Hudson's opinion, extraordinary and unexplained. "I can think of no good commercial reason for ... these features of the structure, and have seen no evidence of any," Hudson wrote. "I conclude, based on the evidence I have seen, that it is probable that the transaction, taken as a whole, was both fraudulent and corrupt." Hudson's report found a responsive audience in Baldeosingh, who stopped Petrotrin from doing business with Citibank and pushed the government to investigate. "We had an opportunity to recover a significant amount of money," Baldeosingh says. Instead, Trinidad's elected officials turned...