Word: lebow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, but that old Werle, on the eve of a new marriage with his housekeeper, Mrs. Sorby, is seeking a reconciliation. The son will have none of it, however, particularly after learning of the part his father has played in the life of Gregers' old schoolfriend, Hjalmer Ekdahl (Will LeBow), who is also a guest at the party. Shocked and revolted by his discoveries, Gregers rejects his father's offer and resolves instead to free his old friend from the "lie" on which the latter's happiness is built...
...York attorney Marc Kasowitz asked. Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, explained that he was involved in his state's lawsuit to recoup Medicaid money spent treating smoking-related illnesses. Kasowitz quizzed him, but, says Barrett, "I didn't realize he was the personal friend and attorney for Ben LeBow." Not until a few weeks later, that is, when Kasowitz called Barrett to arrange a meeting and floated the news that his client, Bennett LeBow, majority shareholder in the Liggett Group, was ready to cut a deal...
What the other cigarette companies do is of little interest to LeBow, a takeover artist who has set his sights on R.J.R. Nabisco. "He's in it to make money,'' says Richard Scruggs, one of whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand's lawyers, who is helping on the Mississippi Medicaid suit. "This is a very sophisticated business transaction by Bennett LeBow." If LeBow can force a merger between Liggett and R.J.R., then R.J.R. will participate in the settlement, moving out from under the shadow of incessant litigation, boosting its stock price and enabling LeBow to split the company's food and tobacco...
...this While You Were Sleeping has. But its most attractive quality is its ease. The script by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fred Lebow wears its wit casually, and the director, Jon Turteltaub, is serenely confident of it, his actors and his audience. He lets scenes develop and characters--especially Bullock's alert and tender Lucy--emerge at their own unforced pace. How nice it is to come out of a mainstream American movie feeling that you've been treated as an adult. And how rare...
Demons succeeds most impressively, and fails most abysmally, for one reason: the acting. Will LeBow, as the demon Murray (a former comic who sold his soul for the chance to headline in a Catskills hotel), is hysterical. Strutting across the stage with an obnoxious yellow suit and a mouth you wouldn't want to take home to Mother, Murray, "a demon with heart palpitations," is cheesiness at its best. LeBow manages to perfectly capture the air and nature of the typical Kutscher's comic. Brustein's script walks an extremely fine line between the deliciously kitchy and the horribly cliched...