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...these two dynamos? They have done enough of those parts and are not eager for more. Tandy longs for a role in just about anything by Athol Fugard, and Cronyn would like to play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He is too old, he reluctantly admits, to take on another Shakespearean favorite, Richard...
Also well-played, though a little stereotypically, is the minor character of Melchior the merchant (Stephen Rosenthal). Rosenthal looks and sounds as if he came straight out of a Brighton Beach kosher deli, and carries a lot of comic weight...
...imprisoned merchant Egeon (Ted Caplow) is also an interesting cast choice on Siegler's part. Caplow looks almost exactly like Dustin Hoffman playing Willy Loman, and the parallels the audience can draw between the two salesmen add an interesting dimension to the work...
...biggest current moneymaker for Morgan, however, is its expanding merchant-banking operations in the U.S., in which the firm puts up its own capital to help finance a deal rather than just serving as a middleman. Morgan has invested $250 million in management-led LBOs. Besides earning fees for arranging the deals, it reaped a 100% return on its money last year from dividends and the sell-off of corporate assets. Morgan's portfolio of industrial holdings includes stakes in 40 companies, including Burlington Industries, Southern Pacific Railroad and Fort Howard Paper...
...Every merchant has security staff and they are his employees," Bearak said "but you just have to train them...