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...stuck in his childhood home in New Orleans because his selfish siblings refuse to help him take care of their ailing mother. Scott (Jason Chaffin), the older brother, is a smug, cold yuppie; Jane (Sarah Yellen), the sister, is a cruel harpy masquerading as a p.c. environmentalist. Poor old Mom, played by the usually effervescent Shar von Boskirk, has nothing to do but sit center-stage for the duration of the play, gurgling and babbling unconvincingly. Those who saw her in last year's West Side Story might have yearned for a chorus of America, but in vain; at least...
...week before Christmas, and, this being a movie by the writer of Lethal Weapon and the director of Cliffhanger, the bad guys are trying to blast our working-mom heroine (Geena Davis) to hell. The villains--the usual CIA renegades--slaughter a couple of dozen bystanders at a train station while the heroine and a private eye she's retained (Samuel L. Jackson) dash to an upper floor. The dastards follow and shoot a deadly fireball their way. The only escape is from a high window, but below is a frozen pond. No problem: Davis blasts enough bullets into...
...folks, who have found it tough to get a decent raise in the stingy 1990s, are benefiting too by using mutual funds to build nest eggs that they hope will fund their kids' college educations and their own retirement. It's all very exciting and, like a pot of Mom's ham bone and string beans, a nourishing meal for anyone with enough courage to sit at the table...
...Mom, of course, would never have dreamed of pulling the plate away before you'd had enough. But the stock market is rarely so gracious. That's worth noting as the Dow Jones industrial average flirts with a record 6000. What the market serves up one day it can steal back the next, and we are long overdue for an encounter with this sometime crook's larcenous side. Some thought a meeting was in store last summer. But after a brief lull, this unprecedented bull market was off and charging again. It's now been six years since the broader...
Nevertheless, newspapers are facing a unique challenge. Although the economy has rebounded--and with it, according to third-quarter reports released last week, profit growth for many newspaper chains--the face of retailing has irrevocably changed, with fewer mom-and-pop stores eager to advertise in the Anytown Daily Bugle and with large discounters not using newspaper ads as heavily. The rise of other ad outlets, such as cable television, direct mail, niche publications and online services, means that newspaper executives may never see such rich margins again--but that does not stop them from squeezing. Many newspaper veterans feel...