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...Republican Governor Bob Martinez and his Democratic challenger, Lawton Chiles. But when the Martinez camp aired TV spots misrepresenting Chiles' U.S. Senate record on Social Security increases, voters reacted angrily. Says Martinez's adviser, David Hill: "We were trying to tiptoe into the waters of negative advertising, and the shark swam up and bit us." The result: a relatively serene campaign focusing on the candidates' records...
...turn up any moment now. In the meantime, as in all his novels, Leonard has introduced us to a few friends. Whodunit is not the issue, because almost everyone in the book is indictable for some villainy. The question is how much trouble the hero, a semiadmirable Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer, will bring down on his head by his squabble with a syndicate wide-body named Bones. A lot, is the answer. Bones walked off with Chili's leather jacket, and Chili, quite reasonably, punched Bones out and shot a crease in his scalp...
...clear out of Miami. He follows a welsher to Los Angeles and, in the process of collecting some money he is owed, becomes fascinated by the movie business. He wants to direct films, of course, and he has an idea for a script about a good-looking, sympathetic loan shark. The author's lovely, slightly malicious joke (Leonard has worked in Hollywood) is that among the movie town's barracudas, electric eels and ink-ejecting squid, a loan shark fits right in. Chili clearly has a great future, despite a disagreement with his prospective film's star, a handsome fellow...
...first proposed the idea two decades ago. In 1980 he pitched a partnership to Paramount, where Eisner was president before taking over Disney. (Eisner says he was not at the meeting.) Last year Cineplex Odeon backed out as co-sponsor. And still Stein pursued his vision, like the Jaws shark searching for fresh kill. In the weeks before the opening, he walked dozens of journalists through the unfinished attractions. So beguiling was Stein's spiel that some reporters obligingly described the experience as if they had been on the completed rides and the park was ready to roll...
...deLone Shark...