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...hero, not guilty by reason of celebrity. Others want him to be unmasked as a villain, if only because it solves this riveting murder mystery. Until a jury determines his fate, he is neither. He is a minor pop star -- a onetime running back, a rental-car salesman, a modestly gifted actor -- in big trouble. Perhaps in an age long depleted of kings, we can come no closer to Greek tragedy than Oedipus Hertz...
...pursued by the usual inept Middle East terrorists -- the ones with a quillion rounds of ammunition and lousy aim. He escapes with the help of spy's-best-friend Tom Arnold and arrives home, where Helen awaits him in sweet ignorance; she thinks Harry is a workaholic salesman for a computer company. Helen always waits; she is Penelope, unaware that she's married to Ulysses...
...employers offered generous pay raises to keep them. Many critics feel the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games flubbed by offering bronze-medal remuneration -- $292,000 a year -- for a gold-medal job. Others are aghast that the honor of the position is apparently not incentive enough. Said salesman Charlie Perkiss: "They must start looking for someone who believes in the Olympic spirit...
...Francisco seminar, which drew 6,000 customers, I paid $110 extra (regular price: $49) for what I was assured would be an "awesome!" seat up front in the arena and a 7 a.m. breakfast with Zig Ziglar, a former pots- and-pans salesman billed as "America's No. 1 Motivational Speaker." Over doughnuts and coffee with 300 other "VIPs," I nodded and laughed along with everyone else at stories of his hardscrabble boyhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where his mother said motivational things like this: "You're going to have to lick that calf over again. That job might...
...schoolteacher mother and carpet-salesman-turned-artist father, Grant graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English. After a stint in repertory ("I was bored playing the tree that waved in the wind and the fourth angry peasant"), he wrote and performed in satirical revues. Grant's drollness led James Ivory to cast him in Maurice, the director's adaptation of E.M. Forster's somber novel about homosexual lovers. Ivory had wanted to bring a dash of humor to the film, and he thought Grant could provide it. Maurice was Grant's first major film role...