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...star actor -- Kevin Costner, say -- plays a character whom the moviegoer recognizes as Kevin Costner: flinty, rural, resourceful. Baldwin, so far, has enjoyed playing a broad range of roles that engage audiences' interest but not always their sympathy. Decent husband, psycho killer, corporate meanie, hero spy. Like a superior salesman, Baldwin displays his wares without revealing himself. Several directors have called him a chameleon, but McTiernan stresses that "Alec goes further. He gets his freedom by keeping you guessing about who he is. It's a function of his intelligence. Give him a toehold, and he'll scamper...
...firm's lobby at 60 Broad Street in New York City, security guards searched bags to prevent workers from carting away computers and company records. "People are in a state of shock. They're laughing and crying," said bond salesman Taylor Greene. Retorted a young broker as he stepped into a limousine with one last show of '80s bravado: "I'll enjoy reading about all this from Hawaii...
...they do keep setting things in front of him. Goodman will shoot two more films this spring and summer, both with lead roles: a Las Vegas lounge singer who inherits the English throne in King Ralph, and a salesman in 1940s Hollywood in Barton Fink. Meanwhile, he and Annabeth are preparing for a baby (due in September) and looking forward to a relatively settled life. "Unless," notes Goodman, "I fall hopelessly out of fashion and we have to work in a carnival." Fat chance...
...time, Karel Reisz directed Morgan!, The Loves of Isadora and The French Lieutenant's Woman. In his day, Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman. What, then, are they doing in a small Connecticut town, mixing up with hookers and private eyes? Don't ask them. Don't ask anyone who has seen the result of their collaboration, Everybody Wins. At times it promises to be a study in miscarried justice -- an innocent youth imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. At other times it seems to be about all-encompassing municipal corruption. There are moments between the detective...
...businesses, and they've heard about what you can do through an offshore bank," says Tampa IRS supervisor Morris Dittman. "Others have cash that rolls out of the drug trade. When a druggie buys a big home and car for cash, you have a real estate agent and a salesman with sudden cash, and they begin wondering if they have to share it with the Government...