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...underperforming of Duplicity, Roberts' first flat-out starring role in more than five years, has cued epidemic amounts of head-scratching from the industry solons. Is it just that the masses don't want to see sophisticated espionage capers starring, ugh, a girl? For now, let's not put the burden on Julia. Best to blame the title, which promises the average moviegoer nothing except a problem pronouncing it to the multiplex ticket seller. Only two live-action films with one-word, four-syllable titles have ever grossed more than $100 million total; and the two that did, Phenomenon...
...Let's not kid ourselves. Bernard Madoff built his $65 billion Ponzi empire at least half on the backs of his feeder funds, like the one charged this week, Fairfield Greenwich Group, with a civil complaint by William F. Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of State...
...controlling our fates we may have had a shot at changing things: we could have done our own research - the research our fund managers were supposed to be doing for us, right? But, of course, they didn't. Why? The money. It was just too good to let us, the simple-minded investors, foolish enough to think this was all on the up and up, know too much, to raise concern, to cause trouble with perfectly legal, unregistered, multibillion-dollar funds that worked hard to stay under government radar. Legally, they didn't have to say a thing...
...This was as deep as the fiduciary responsibility had to go since, after all, he was in charge of the trades, right? That's what we thought. Let's face it: had this new name, Madoff, been mentioned at this time it was quite likely everyone in Chais' many funds would have yanked their money fast, or a good chunk of it, and where would that have left...
...English, the spokesman for the conservative family group, said he's already begun lobbying for an amendment campaign to outlaw gay marriage again. "The first thing we did after internalizing the decision was to walk across the street and begin the process of lobbying our legislators to let the people of Iowa vote," he said...