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Thousands of homeowners rushed the stores, buying water, batteries, plywood, junk food--anything to get them through the storm that might just hit. Few people were taking any chances...
...film does an excellent job in immediately establishing definite, interesting characters. For example, every aspect of Wai-Tung's life screams Yuppie. He drives a Mercedes, lives in a beautiful home, doesn't eat junk food and decides which boxers to wear according to the day of the week. Unfortunately, none of the characters seemed to develop beyond their initial portrayals. The exception was Wai-Tung's father, an endearing old man, whose love for his son is so strong he eventually surprises everyone...
...Turner simply pines for a movie studio. The last time he bought one, MGM in 1986, he did so by taking on a billion-dollar junk-bond debt that almost lost him his whole company. A year later, after he was bailed out by the country's big cable operators (including Time Inc.), he was obliged to let the corporate outsiders radically hobble his natural cowboy operating style: since then, mortifyingly, Turner has had to get his board's approval whenever he wants to spend more than $2 million. In 1989 they told him he couldn't buy the Financial...
...covers Philadelphia for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, guesses 40%. "The general attitude on Passyunk is that if I don't buy it, the next yard will," says Kane. "You'll walk into a lot of yards and see nothing but a few doors and a lot of junk. That's because calls are made, orders are taken, and things get done through the back door...
...fees for outside help. The protospecies of the financier could be hired for a fee to come in, clean house, do a little short term restructuring, and sell our for a killing Boesky traded inside, and no one objected to Milken's $550 million base salary for his Junk services...