Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge, who in the book...
...will be needed for substantial cost savings. And the banks' underachieving loans, which range from troubled real estate mortgages in New York City to unpaid Third World debt, will erode their profits for years to come. "I hope they didn't just put two boat anchors together," says John McCoy, chairman of Ohio-based Banc One, a regional firm that has been aggressively buying up local banks. "If they did, they'll just go down at the same speed together...
...didn't see any good reviews of it either. Godfather I was pretty close ((to the real thing)), and Godfather II was good, but this one was farfetched. I remember sitting there and thinking, If these suckers in the theater only knew they were sitting with the real McCoy...
...White, Barbara Wilhelm (Associate Art Directors); Stefano Arata, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Victoria Nightingale, Leah M. Purcell, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Dennis Wheeler (Designers); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Steven D. Hart, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells Administration: Carrie A. Zimmerman
...White, Barbara Wilhelm (Associate Art Directors); Stefano Arata, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Victoria Nightingale, Leah M. Purcell, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Dennis Wheeler (Designers); John P. Dowd (Traffic) Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Steven D. Hart, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells Administration: Carrie A. Zimmerman