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...sprightly romantic comedy on the Oedipal dilemma? As Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), a pleasant 1985-style teenager, exclaims to his shock and chagrin, "My mom has the hots for me!" This takes some explaining. Marty's pal, an aged, eccentric scientist (Christopher Lloyd), has fashioned a De Lorean car into a functioning time machine. Suddenly, Marty finds himself in 1955, in the bedroom of the 17-year-old girl (Lea Thompson) who will be his mother, if -- big if -- he can deflect her crush on him toward the nice-guy nerd (Crispin Glover) who will be his father...
...went bankrupt, who was tried and acquitted on charges of cocaine trafficking and who is being investigated for embezzlement? "An abundance of people," says Walt Bratten, chairman of Castle Group, a Newport Beach, Calif., investment firm. Bratten claims to be arranging financing for a new venture by John De Lorean, 60, the former General Motors executive whose first auto company collapsed in 1982. De Lorean has been working on the new project for about six months. He told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that it was "inevitable that the company come back." Tentative plans call for building a new sports...
Analysts doubt, however, that investors in De Lorean's comeback attempt will ever see any profits. "I think it would be more fun to just go out and throw your money off the Brooklyn Bridge," says David Healy, an auto company expert at Drexel Burnham Lambert. De Lorean is still under investigation for allegedly defrauding investors in his last company of millions of dollars...
...their prosecutor peers, who tend to regard such lawyers, honest or dishonest, with indiscriminate contempt. At a recent Florida meeting attended by 200 drug defense lawyers, one attorney denounced harassing prosecutors as "young scumheads." A speaker at the conference, Howard Weitzman, the highly regarded defender of John De Lorean, said that many prosecutors are simply vindictive: "You're driving the Mercedes; they're driving the Chevy Nova. You're everything they want...
MOST TEDIOUS SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION: Phil Donahue's move to New York City, Vanessa Williams' future plans, Cristina De Lorean's courtroom wardrobe...