Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Omen at the Science Center is the film in which Gregory Peck proved that he too could stoop as low as any other good actor. With Lee Remick and some kid with three 6's on his scalp, The Omen did provide Hollywood with some rather ingenious ways of killing priests, photographers and nannies as it depicted the story of the son of Satan and his early years as a young rake...
...Atticus Finch in the 1963 movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Gregory Peck captured well the kindly, yet determined sensibilities of a rural Southern lawyer. The actor has moved north to Gettysburg, Pa., for his next role, in The Blue and the Gray, an eight-hour CBS TV mini-series to be aired next March. Queuing up in a distinguished line that includes Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey and Hal Holbrook, Peck, 65, is taking up stovepipe and chin whiskers to portray Abraham Lincoln. "I'm in seven scenes," says Greg, "but I only get to speak in five...
...daughter Fanny, a lilt-ingfemmefatale in the Crummies' troupe, a bitter near-deaf crone called Peg. By sulking or shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
...repayment even if the borrower reneges, and sells the document at a discount on New York's short-term money market. Many millions of dollars in such-notes are sold daily in New York, and last week they yielded interest rates as high as 19%. As confirmed by Peck, Wiggins apparently operated a disarmingly straightforward scheme. First, he dreamed up a borrower and drew up the appropriate document in that name. Next he stamped the note ACCEPTED, and then offered it for sale in New York. Finally, the money from the sale was deposited in a private checking account...
Wiggins confessed to the rip-off in a statement to the bank, though he pleaded that it all began when he promised a loan to an unqualified customer. At the same time, confirmed Peck, he deeded over all his assets to Allied, and even agreed to a bank demand that he give up any literary rights he might have or acquire - in case he decided, for example, to try his hand at writing a book about his ca per. In early April the bank sold much of Wiggins' cattle holdings for $2.4 million...