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...gallery grew. He earned an Oscar for best actor as Christy Brown, the Irish painter and writer crippled by cerebral palsy, in the 1989 My Left Foot. He reached dreamboat status as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). And in his last two films, another rep-company parlay. He is Newland Archer, the sensitive 1870s New York City lawyer, in Martin Scorsese's rapturously sedate The Age of Innocence. He is Irish hell-raiser Gerry Conlon, framed and imprisoned with his saintly dad (Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite) for an I.R.A. bombing, in Jim Sheridan's In the Name...
With a vision he once publicly compared to Barry Diller's plans for QVC, Sculley had hoped to parlay the valuable patents of the once little-known company into a behemoth befitting a new name he dreamed up for Spectrum: Global Wave Communications. What was to have been a comeback for the 54-year- old executive, who stepped down last June after failing to restart Apple's stalled rise, instead poses new questions about his business acumen...
Director Walter Hill's combat sequences are short and sharp, but there are not quite enough of them. The script, by Hollywood's last rogue males, John Milius and Larry Gross, devotes too much time to parlay and palaver -- to self-justification, if you will. Depending on your point of view, that's either a necessity or a sad commentary on the state of traditional male ways of being...
...defense, the Crimson held the Bears to just two shots in the first half but relaxed in the second with the three-goal lead. Brown responded with a barrage of long-distance shots and attempted to parlay the rebounds into goals. Harvard goalie Jessica Milhollin recorded 10 saves in the second half, according to junior Maureen O'Brien...
...Gloria nudging her husband Herbert out of the back of their drugstore and the couple boldly borrowing from Gloria's parents and liquidating their children's bonds to gamble on a discount pharmacy. The venture thrived and grew into the Dart drugstore chain, which the Hafts went on to parlay into a retailing conglomerate. With $1.2 billion in sales today and about 600 outlets in seven states, the Hafts' Dart Group, which includes Crown Books and Trak Auto stores, has kept the family in Range Rovers and Florida and California mansions and at charity balls. But now a family feud...