Word: robber
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...distant third, with $26 million for the weekend, was Public Enemies, with Johnny Depp impersonating John Dillinger under Michael Mann's direction. Somehow the story of a bank robber who died 75 years ago didn't seduce the holiday audience. Maybe when the grownups have packed their kids off to summer camp, they'll belatedly discover this rare July movie aimed at adults. In holdover action, the two Are-they-gonna-get-married? comedies The Proposal and The Hangover maintained healthy chunks of their audiences, and Pixar's Up, challenged by another 3-D animated feature, finally lost altitude...
...important because it is woven into so many other things than just business.” “It was woven into the course of American events,” he said. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a prominent American businessman and the original “robber baron.” He dominated the U.S. economy in the 19th century with his shipping and railway companies, and according to Stiles, was one of the wealthiest men in American history with an estimated net worth in 1877 of $100 million, representing 1 out of every 20 dollars that was in circulation...
...Moment (1987) A convicted bank robber, after serving nine years in prison, has become a rich and famous media celebrity. A TV producer decides to bring him together with the mousey clerk who foiled the robbery. This provocative and prescient satire of the distorting mirror of reality TV would seem made to order for American audiences. Alas, nothing doing...
...These are Humes' "eco-barons" - the modern-day counterpart to the 19th century robber barons who helped set the U.S. on its resource-gobbling path - and they're using their vast wealth and will to help protect the earth's quickly vanishing wilderness. The eco-barons' mission, Humes says, became all the more important when Washington shrank from its role as environmental guardian. "In an era in which government has been either broke, indifferent or actively hostile to environmental causes," writes Humes, "a band of visionaries ... are using their wealth, their energy, their celebrity and their knowledge...
...Steven G. Catalano, the spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department. The victim, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said he was returning to his room in Leverett and was in front of old Quincy House when he was approached from behind by the perpetrator. The robber petitioned the student for money, and the situation escalated when the student refused, according to the victim. “He stuck one hand into the front pocket of his hoodie and pulled out what appeared to be the handle of a gun,” the victim said. The victim...