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Shrewd, grasping, rich old Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand) and his simpleton nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) covet their neighbor's land. Each has his reasons, but they are not good enough. Not enough, that is, to justify their terrible plot to force the decent, innocent newcomer known as Jean de Florette (Gerard Depardieu), his patient wife and lovely child to sell their holdings at a distressed price. The Soubeyrans' idea is simple: stop up the neighbor's spring. But the execution is grim and protracted; the plotters stand by, offering sympathy but no practical assistance as Jean descends first to exhaustion...
Well, not the Joe Friday, Jack Webb's immortally stylized police professional, but rather old Joe's nephew, encased in the comical form of Dan Aykroyd. A true inheritor of the manners and morals of the '50s, he is a cop whose unhappy lot is to protect and serve the Los Angeles of the 1980s. To him, that is roughly equivalent to working the night watch out of Gomorrah...
...eminent botanist, revered by fellow specialists for his work on Arctic lichens. Kenneth's obsession with Benn stems from a conviction that "you have no reason to exist unless you believe you can make your life a turning point. A turning point for everybody -- for humankind." The nephew feels his uncle has single-mindedly pursued such a path and might be an appropriate guide: "I thought, Would it be possible to bring to the human world what Uncle brought to plant life?" Unfortunately, this "crucial project" is interrupted by a bit of mundane melodrama. After 15 years as a widower...
Jenny ends up meeting another visitor, Marvin Michaels (Lee Thomson), at a party in honor of Michael's nephew. In a flash, she ends up in bed with him, and the rest of the play tries to untangle this plot twist, one of Yang's own touches...
...They picked as Barnes' acting replacement Nathan Pearson, 75, a longtime financial adviser to Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who holds 9% of the bank's shares. Heading the search committee that begins meeting this week to find Barnes' successor is Andrew Mathieson, who advises the heirs of Andrew Mellon's nephew, Richard King Mellon. Two names are believed to have the committee's interest: David Nordby, 47, executive vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank; and Silas Keehn, 56, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Both were promising Mellon executives who moved on after Barnes became chairman...