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...scrappy co-founder and president of Phar-Mor, the largest U.S. deep- discount drugstore chain, Michael Monus was known for his love of sports and for expanding the firm at a breakneck pace. But most of the profits the Ohio-based company (sales: $3.14 billion) reported for the past three years were apparently phony...
...headquarters in a two-tone Rolls-Royce. As industry experts saw it, he intended to dismantle Atari, regarding it as a start-up operation. He pushed aside Chairman James Morgan, 42, the former Philip Morris executive whom Warner had brought in last September to perk up the company. Mor gan had tried to save Atari, chiefly by slashing its worldwide work force from...
...information about wolves, the film re-creates most of the book's incidents with a minimum of fictional embellishment while sustaining a dramatic momentum of its own. Most important, it is in every sense true to the spirit of Mowat's writing, which mixed self-deprecating hu mor, outrage over man's misunderstanding and misuse of the wilds, and a sense of selfdiscovery...
...Will's side. This is unfortunate, because the character has some serious, unacknowledged flaws. He is remarkably cold to those around him; he goes into the cave shortly before his daughter's wedding and worries not a whit about missing it. Evidence for his sense of mor al superiority is not provided. He rants at unconscionable length, a voice crying out not in the wilderness but on the golf course or in his Mercedes. The effect of his diatribes is peculiar, as if Swift had put his most acid criticisms of society in the mouth of a Yahoo...
Aside from the witty lines he fed Mor ley, Screenwriter Peter Stone has concoct ed a script strewn with terrible puns ("Ban the bombe") and snickering double-entendre gags that make all the tired connections between food and sex. The arbitrary plot about a chef murderer hops from place to place on the slightest whim. It is little more than an excuse for cameo appearances by top European actors (Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean Rochefort) and restaurants (Paris' Tour d' Argent, London's Café Royal). The settings are sumptuously photographed by John Alcott (Barry Lyndon...