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...revive it were needed, it came last week. After a 20-week courtroom conflict described by Justice Peter Cresswell as "the largest and most complex piece of civil litigation this jurisdiction has ever seen," Lloyd's was found not guilty of defrauding investors. A jubilant Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor refrained from giving the Lutine a double ring, but he was doubly delighted with the result. Not only did the decision close a "distant and troubled chapter in Lloyd's history," he said, but it would allow Lloyd's to "get on with the business of running the world...
...Max H. Montel...
...audience than this film is. If she wants to typecast herself as eye candy, she'd better be careful: while on 35 in human years, she is already in her late forties in anorexic years. I can only assume that she was attracted by the same thing that convinced Max von Sydow to play Leland Gaunt in Needful Things, or Shirley MacLane to play Aurora Winters in Terms of Endearment: the chance to create a character of pure evil. Unfortunately, character isn't something this film is very good at. Fraser and Hurley come on mugging like criminals, caricaturing their...
...sport. Jay Gatsby used to call everyone an old sport, including the son-of-a-bitch Tom Buchanan, who did not like it. Fitzgerald borrowed the term from a bootlegger friend, Max Gerlach, who shot himself in 1939. Who could blame him? It's terrible to be an old sport, a creaky, achy, fatty over-the-hill athlete--even when one was a fair athlete at best--and to watch those long-muscled, wrinkle-free kids on TV, and to be borne back ceaselessly into the past...
This movie is silly to the max-but it was meant to be. So it's hard to fault The Ladies Man for hitting our expectations right on the nose. All you can do is sit back and laugh-either with them or at them...