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...same meeting, however, the A.B.A. balked at adopting a companion proposal that would have allowed disclosure of client secrets when the risk of harm is only financial. Under the rejected rule, a lawyer would have been able, for example, to rat on a client who was committing fraud. The measure's critics argued that it would make the loophole too large and would too often put lawyers at odds with their clients. It could also, they warned, harm a client's legal representation by leading the client to hide significant facts from his attorney...
...probably haven't heard of this new movie, which opens this week. If you have, it may not seem very appealing. Paramount's TV ads are ho-hum. The title has the word "rat" in it, which has all the allure of "colonoscopy." So do yourself a favor, turn to our critic's review on the following page, and take his advice: Go see it. Even in Hollywood, Paramount's competition has been murmuring respectfully about Rat Race's remarkably successful test screenings. And you should also be aware that the film actually has nothing whatsoever to do with rodents...
...awareness of the movie. Jokes are too elaborate to capture in a 30-second TV spot, and there's no Julia Roberts above the title to grab our attention. But in a summer full of craven action flicks made with the marketing department rather than the audience in mind, Rat Race stands out as an unabashed, family-friendly crowd pleaser...
...nothing else, Rat Race marks the return of a director who was one of Hollywood's kings of comedy in the 1980s. Zucker got his start in show business 30 years ago as part of the Kentucky Fried Theater, a comedy troupe he formed in Milwaukee, Wis., with his big brother, David, and their buddy Jim Abrahams. They built the sets, hung the lights, wrote the sketches and, because of budgetary restrictions, did all the acting themselves. "We all embarrassed easily," recalls Zucker, "so we hated to have a joke that clunked or a long time between jokes. We wanted...
...bugs. A lot are being consumed, but most have fallen prey to rural overuse of insecticides. (That has caused an ecological imbalance: when the insect population dipped, so did that of birds and reptiles that feed on them. And as those are natural predators of rodents, the rat population has exploded?and no one's predicting an imminent rat-meat craze...