Word: scams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kodak says that it called in the FBI six months ago when it learned of the scam, but word of the investigation broke only last week in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. According to one report, an angry former employee complained to his friends that he had been fired from his job at Kodak's apparatus division less than a month after he had paid $1,000 to get the position...
...viewer could bet the farm that Lookin' to Get Out will hold no surprises. Alex and Jerry will run a blackjack scam; they will win more than they hoped, lose more than they know. Ann-Margret, as Alex's old flame, will keep moving provocatively, to sidestep the carnage. The film was shot 24 years ago, and Director Ashby has spent much of the time since then fine-tuning the editing. The effort shows, but not the effect: the picture is a sloppy mess that stumbles toward oblivion like a drunk on a losing streak...
...lads shout, "Go back to Poland!" at the uncomprehending laborers. At an intersection, fenders graze and tempers flare. In a supermarket, a woman in a fur coat filches consumer goods the Poles could neither find nor afford back home. (Her thievery gives Nowak the inspiration for his own shopping scam.) A derelict steals Nowak's food and saves him from being apprehended with it. London, the dowager queen putting her gaudiest remnants on fire sale, seems so different from Warsaw. But the enforced meanness of its spirit makes the displaced Poles feel almost at home...
...parade of Pavarotti's greatest hits, plus a funny nun, two funny servants and a not-so-funny food fight (in case someone from the Animal House crowd wanders in by mistake). Franklin J. Schaffner has directed as if no one let him in on the scam. Poor chap seems to be taking the whole thing seriously. Or maybe he just ran too many old Mario Lanza pictures in preparation for the assignment. Still, amid prodigies of too carefully calculated (or miscalculated) charm, Pavarotti plays with a certain ingratiating diffidence. Movies are not where he lives, and he behaves...
Wall Street's rally in the midst of a bust economy is a scam initiated by the Feds and timed for elections. The big-money interests can and will lead the way out, grabbing nice profits, just about the time the small investor decides that he too should put his dollars into the market...