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Kirn's novel inched into nightmare, as Ryan got mixed up with a company called MegaTech and became convinced someone was stealing his miles. Reitman, who previously scored with the quirky hits Thank You for Smoking and Juno, and who shares screenplay credit with Sheldon Turner, soft-pedals the satire and pumps up Ryan's relationships with Alex and Natalie. The movie's development of three strong personalities, each with grails the others don't seek, shows a maturity rare in modern movies. So does Reitman's refusal to judge any of the three. He doesn't force comeuppance...
...Formula One racing-engine subsidiary, to an Indonesian business group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it was rumored to be worth $40 million. In 1987 Chrysler paid $25 million for Lamborghini, mostly as a vanity nameplate; in recent years it has lost money. The buyer was Megatech, a Bermuda-based holding company owned jointly by Jakarta industrialist Setiawan Djody and Hutomo Mandala Putra, a son of Indonesian President Suharto...
Take a look at your fellow prisoners next time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...
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