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...From the release of the first Tomb Raider in 1996, the game's star, Lara, was designed to be different. In a videogame scene filled at the time with Uzi-toting brain-dead lugs, here was a nimble and refined British heroine who oozed sex. Her style was a wonderful collision of opposites: preppy pigtail and glasses with pistol-packing twin thigh holsters. Male video gamers were hooked. And for the first time, so were their wives and girlfriends. "I think [Croft] is a new definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity...
...anyone who has played the smash-hit video game Tomb Raider can tell you, Croft Manor is the home of Lara Croft, the aristocratic female archaeologist with an eye-popping physique and an Indiana Jones-size taste for travel and adventure. Croft aficionados, though, have never known the place to look this high-tech, or this highly detailed. They have also never met its other inhabitants: the butler, the sardonic tech geek who lives in a trailer out back, or Lara's late father, Lord Croft, who will appear in his manor's observatory packed...
...Probably no human could live up to the sexy-tough-girl fantasies that Croft has inspired, but Jolie - with her uplifting Triumph bra and cool intensity - may well satisfy the most hard-core Tomb Raider fans. "I didn't want a bimbo movie all about tight costumes," says Simon. "With Angie, I can get an Oscar-winning performance in every scene, but she'll still satisfy the lust in Lara that everyone sees... She's sexy, and I think a very slight tomboy. People are also now comfortable with female action leads. People can have their cake...
...course, a few key '80s players never went away. Bottom fisher Sanford Weill, for one, amassed an impressive array of financial companies on the cheap while others were getting tech-obsessed. He is now the head of Citigroup, one of the world's largest banks. Icahn, the '80s raider who shook Texaco and took TWA, has asserted influence in small doses throughout the '90s by buying large amounts of distressed corporate debt, as has former Milken colleague Leon Black at Apollo Advisors...
There have been other impediments to raider activity. Better management, for instance. Gone is the widespread corporate fat that marked the '80s. Two decades of shareholder activism and a hotly competitive global economy in the '90s have led CEOs to trim fat without prodding...