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UNLESS the Israeli Supreme Court heeds his appeal and overturns his death sentence, retired Cleveland autoworker and convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk will hang sometime this year for the grisly crimes committed at Treblinka by the notorious "Ivan the Terrible...
...rang out over the Beverly Hills junk-bond trading floor of Drexel Burnham Lambert at the news coming over the brokerage firm's wire. Jubilation also reigned among most New York Republicans, and quite probably in Mafia hangouts as well. Rudolph Giuliani, famed prosecutor of Wall Street manipulators (Drexel, Ivan Boesky), mobsters (the Colombo family) and corrupt politicians (former Bronx Democratic leader Stanley Friedman), announced that after 5 1/2 years as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he would resign at month's end. Gotham Republicans, a tiny band of inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able this...
...very success led to its comeuppance. As in a Greek tragedy, the company seemed to suffer from an overabundance of hubris that concealed a fatal flaw. In Drexel's case, it was Milken's growing appetite for power and control. The turning point came in November 1986 when Ivan Boesky, a notorious Wall Street speculator, pleaded guilty to a single count of securities fraud and agreed to pay $100 million to settle SEC charges that he had used insider information to buy and sell stock. Boesky, who is serving a three-year term in a minimum-security prison in Lompoc...
TWINS Directed by Ivan Reitman; Screenplay by William Davies, William Osborne, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod...
...news about it: no shocking language, no pants-dropping vulgarity, no desperately paced action designed to disguise witlessness. The movie's serene self-confidence encourages the viewer to settle back comfortably and just let it happen. And this is all the more surprising in that director Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Legal Eagles) has in the past sometimes not known when he should leave well enough alone...