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...Company of Men Gamesmanship '90s-style: a nasty corporate jock sets up a woman--and his soft-willed colleague--for the betrayal of their middle-class lives. Neil LaBute's Freon-cool comedy, made for a preposterously low $25,000, outraged viewers who didn't get the dark joke or the narrative suavity. See it with someone you're sure loves...
...self-conscious teen who attends a pretentious Manhattan private school and spends most of her time reading and day-dreaming. When she goes upstate to visit her beloved Nana (Jeanne Moreau), she immediately relaxes, talking endlessly about her crush on Ethan Wells (Jude Law), the popular and egoistic class jock. Afterwards, when Daisy reads a lustful love poem aloud in class, Ethan immediately recognizes to whom the composition is addressed. He, of course, pursues her and they soon become a couple. But when she confides to Ethan that her Nana is a Holocaust survivor, he suddenly becomes aloof. Daisy...
While Meyer may not agree with your criteria for what makes a good movie, his book may prove useful if you get stuck with that gov. jock down the hall as your Secret Santa recipient. Few other guides would describe the title character of Patton as "The toughest, most arrogant...(and thus most interesting) son of a bitch;" the flick Pulp Fiction as a movie where "A lot of stuff happens, so pay attention;" and Under Siege as "The Navy...a chance to blow away a lot of bad guys on a really cool big boat." The movie trivia tidbits...
Mayer is a jock for life, but unlike most campus athletes with a cache of high school honors and training camp credentials who were recruited by the College, she is unable to play a varsity sport--although she would give anything to take the field...
...still figures it to be a good transaction. Salomon, with clients from Boston to Bangkok and offices in 23 countries, has earned a solid reputation for its prowess in international finance. The 87-year-old firm also has a reputation as Wall Street's version of a frat-jock house. Its swaggering, foul-mouthed and lavishly rewarded traders epitomized the masters-of-the-universe Wall Street culture of the 1980s. That swagger was staggered by a government bond-trading scandal in 1991 from which the firm never really recovered. Needing to broaden its portfolio beyond bonds to stay competitive, Salomon...