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...Fred Claus, played by Vince Vaughn, is the estranged brother of the more famous, more rotund Santa Claus. As a boy, Fred chose to move away from the family’s North Pole nest to escape feeling outshined by his sib. So he takes a job as a repo man. When we’re introduced to him, Fred is taking great pleasure in expropriating family televisions during the holiday season. He’s also decided to become an entrepreneur of sorts. There’s mention of a half-baked plan to start a franchise...
...Walsh announced Monday that he'd accept American Airlines' $742 million bid for the carcass of the once-venerable airline. The ruling came just in time for American to dash off a $130 million check - part of an overall assumption of $3.5 billion in TWA debt -to keep the repo men away from TWA's planes. And so Trans World Airlines and its bustling St. Louis hub will survive. The TWA name will...
...accounts, Hillary's two brothers are colorful, likable men. At 45, Tony has a job history that includes stints as an insurance salesman, a prison guard, a sort of cable-service repo man (during which he drew gunfire at Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project) and a private investigator. Five years ago, he married Nicole Boxer, daughter of California Senator Barbara Boxer, in an elegant Rose Garden ceremony. His big brother Hugh, 49, a bearlike man who once played football for Penn State, served as a Peace Corps volunteer and spent more than a decade as an assistant public defender...
...told a black crowd to vote for him because "I look like you," which went over as well as Linda Tripp's "I am you" line. But he looked oh-so-smooth doing it. You can check out Bell's new pinstripes as he walks the campaign trail. The repo man came and got his Mustang a couple weeks back...
...time otherwise filled mostly with orchestral, pretentious crap and inoffensive James Taylor wimpery. Richman's influence is all over '77 punk, as you know if you've ever heard the Sex Pistols' massacre of "Roadrunner." And a cover of "Pablo Picasso" appeared in Alex Cox's brilliant movie Repo...