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Howard Baker, the former Senator and a lawyer himself, often deplored the professionalization of Congress, which has insulated it from the marketplace. If legislators were steel fabricators or computer salesmen and only part-time politicians, they would be far more careful with the public's money. A member of Congress may not get wealthy on a salary of $96,600 (House) or $98,400 (Senate), but it's enough to relieve anxiety. Pensions are fat and perks numerous. Then there are the unspent campaign kitties: Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the man who shapes...
Theirs is a terrific comic duet, and writer Ken Friedman has backed them with a rich chorus of disapproval, including all the customers and salesmen also trapped in the showroom. Director Roger Donaldson, who has had his ups (No Way Out) and downs (Cocktail), is in his best voice here. It is the lower-depths snarl, angry and frustrated. It provides Cadillac Man with a steady bass line and makes it a rarity among recent films -- a comedy that is in touch with a recognizable reality...
...imprisoned merchant Egeon (Ted Caplow) is also an interesting cast choice on Siegler's part. Caplow looks almost exactly like Dustin Hoffman playing Willy Loman, and the parallels the audience can draw between the two salesmen add an interesting dimension to the work...
...this seems a lot of hoopla, given the fact that the 71-year-old 60 Minutes curmudgeon usually zeros in on fail-safe targets like health clubs, cereal and encyclopedia salesmen. But starting last December, Rooney blundered beyond his usual puckish humor into a series of ill-advised and sometimes ignorant statements. On a prime-time special called A Year with Andy Rooney: 1989 he listed "homosexual unions," along with smoking and alcohol abuse, among the "self-induced" causes of death incurred by Americans. There were immediate protests at the implication that gays willingly contract AIDS...
...agents can be spared because IRS employees are working overtime to contain an explosion of smaller-time money-laundering cases involving car salesmen, ordinary investors, real estate agents and other entrepreneurs. In Florida undercover IRS agents operating a sting operation that they touted as a "full-service financial-investment corporation" have nabbed 50 would-be money launderers in the past year. "Some are lawyers and businessmen who are skimming cash from their 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...