Word: scamming
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ANOTHER YOU. A congenital liar (Gene Wilder) and his con man friend (Richard Pryor) get involved in an elaborate insurance scam. This comedy is complicated too -- but a big why-bother. By now these two gifted farceurs are doing it from memory, not from inspiration. The parts keep moving long after the machine is turned...
...last week, accused General Electric Co. of conspiring with Israeli General Rami Dotan to defraud Washington of $30 million in U.S. military aid by padding invoices and charging for work that was never done. Last March, Dotan was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in the scam, which investigators believe diverted into his bank accounts money earmarked for the purchase of F-16 engines...
...Brooks' Life Stinks, a kind of Homeless Alone about a billionaire on the bum, as if it were trying to wipe a rag across their windshield. Brooks' old colleague Gene Wilder has fared no better with Another You, in which he plays a compulsive liar coupled in a complex scam with con man Richard Pryor. On its second weekend of release, this mediocre jape averaged a pathetic $262 per screen; that's about 50 people in each theater all weekend. With those numbers, a moviemaker can go broke, and an usher can get awfully lonely...
...Angeles grand jury returned a 175-count indictment against brothers Michael and David Smushkevich, along with 10 others, charging that they used the freebie checkups to submit $1 billion in fake claims. All told, they allegedly collected more than $50 million in what may be the biggest scam of its kind ever...
...revered sheik wound up at the center of a global scam...