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...news of spreading corporate cutbacks. One consumer sounding after another is recording the development of a batten-down-the-hatches mentality. Since Iraq invaded Kuwait, consumer confidence has fallen to its lowest level in 44 years. In a national survey of 500 consumers conducted last week by the Leo Burnett advertising agency, 82% said the economy was in worse shape now than it was a year ago, while 40% said they were feeling the pinch themselves...
...matter how troubling the signs, no one expects consumers to skip Christmas and Hanukkah this year. But while they may buy nearly as many presents as last year, they may shop for them in different places. More than a fourth of the people surveyed by Leo Burnett last week said they plan to do much of their Christmas shopping this year in discount stores. Among the well- managed retailers surging ahead of the pack as a result: the Gap, Wal-Mart, Mervyn's, T.J. Maxx, Costco and Crate & Barrel in Chicago, which specializes in moderately priced housewares. Quality retailers expected...
Like Red Harvest, but unlike most movies, Miller's Crossing has a good novel's narrative density. The film finds a dozen angles in the battle between Leo O'Bannion (Albert Finney), the Irishman who has run the town for years, and Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), the volatile, flirtatious Italian who is itching to seize control. Their bone of contention is Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro), a gambler too greedy to live long but too cunning to stay dead. His sister Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) has stolen Leo's heart and is ever ready to fence it. Nice crowd. Shuttling among...
...from the daredevil camerabatics of Blood Simple and Raising Arizona; they now seek the extra fillip of incident and character in the corner of every frame. Each of the hard gents in Miller's Crossing finds his own space and his own reasons for pushing others out of it. Leo, for example, is given a blaze of glory as he defends his life against Caspar's goons. To the strains of Danny Boy he strides from his home, machine gun flaring, a dinosaur who refuses to die. "The old man," one friend says wistfully, "is still an artist with...
Celebrity is not new. Leo Braudy in The Frenzy of Renown traced its origins to Alexander the Great and other leaders who used fame to consolidate their power. But as a lucrative career in itself, celebrity is a recent creation. A herd of columnists like Colacello moos after the newly famous, chronicling tectonic shifts in the species and its habitats imperceptible to anyone but the most tireless observers. The columnists then become famous for their mooing...