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...surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), the characters lack inner life. As the set suggests, they are pawns on a chessboard -- with no grand master in sight...
...right to glamourize smoking raises obvious First Amendment questions. But even if Congress hasn't the power to ban tobacco promotion -- and it well may -- what of private restrictions? Why shouldn't publishers, including Time Inc., decree that they will no longer push tobacco? When is TV Guide owner Rupert Murdoch (a Philip Morris board member) going to announce that since cigarette ads are inappropriate on TV, they're also wrong for TV Guide, which has a huge readership among kids? Is it appropriate that seven pages of a recent issue of Self magazine, with all its articles on fitness...
...Publisher] Rupert Murdoch and the Boston Herald have very deep pockets...they can out last any [college] paper" in an ad price war, said Josh Hartmann, chair of The MIT Tech...
Still, you may luxuriate in the landscapes and in the performances -- by Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Giovanni Giudelli and (of course) Helena Bonham Carter -- that subvert caricature. And you are permitted to weep at the film's climax: a last embrace of two not-quite lovers, closest at this instant of separate, mutual despair. It is a sweet, seductive, haunting final shot...
...turned 50. And the miracle mogul had to wonder, Did he have the power he deserved? Spawning Home Alone and The Simpsons loses its savor if the profits you generate go out of Fox's entertainment pocket and into the frayed purse of the newspapers owned by your boss, Rupert Murdoch. Or any company owned by anyone else. At Disney, Diller's friend and former underling Michael Eisner answers only to God and the Bass brothers. Ted Turner, Larry Tisch -- these guys own stuff. Diller just ran things. "For 30 years I've been an employee," he says...