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...have, a cigarette, and her choice leads to 16 variations) and Krzysztof Kieslowski's film Blind Chance (a man runs for a train and heads into three different realities). In writer-director Peter Howitt's version, the Helen who makes the train home finds her beau Gerry (John Lynch) in bed with his old girlfriend (Jeanne Tripplehorn); the Helen who misses the train gets mugged. And in both cases she meets a seemingly nice fellow, James (John Hannah), to whose wry persistence she increasingly warms...
...film means to be beguiling, and many will find it so. But in this viewer's alternative reality, Sliding Doors is way too strained, in narrative logic and in performance, to work. Paltrow either whines or twinkles; Hannah works overtime at being winsome; Lynch has not even a pinch of larcenous charm; Tripplehorn is reduced to stridency and humiliation. The actors appear to be on trial for unknown offenses, and what could be blithe and affecting instead comes on like--oh, like the Spanish Inquisition...
Even Americans woozy from the stock market's climb will not be deaf to these arguments. They still cling to their traditional concept of Social Security as a safety net, not an alternative to Merrill Lynch. More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll said they regard Social Security primarily as a benefit program designed to assure the elderly a minimum income during retirement. And that does not take into account that a third of Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees but widows and widowers, children who have lost a parent, and the disabled...
...Roth. Before him, Carter Glass and Henry Steagall did all right with their Depression-era banking laws. And Eugene Keogh has a legacy with the self-employed. But the Roth IRA is in a class of its own: the most hyped investor doodad for Everyman since mutual funds. Merrill Lynch says the Roth IRA is its most visible product, hands down. Run against Roth at home, and unless your name is 401(k), you don't have a shot...
Listen, Omigod, Merrill Lynch has cut me from second rounds but I landed another interview with D.L.J...