Word: simone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller believed in John G. Bennett Jr. So did singer Pat Boone, Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell and former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, as well as an array of institutions ranging from the University of Pennsylvania to the Nature Conservancy to the National Museum of American Jewish History...
Listed among New Era's creditors were Rockefeller ($11.4 million), Simon ($6.5 million) and Boone, although the largest individual loser was the Rev. Glenn Blossom of Dresher, Pennsylvania ($27.5 million), who was using the funds to establish a seminary. All in all, New Era claimed $551 million in liabilities against just $80 million in assets...
McClane's nemesis this time is Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons, with bleached blond hair), founder of an East German special forces unit and brother of Hans Gruber, the man McClane dropped from the thirty-second floor of the Nakitomi building two movies ago. Simon is a man with terrible anger (towards McClane), a propensity for migraine headaches and access to more than a ton of powerful liquid explosive. A deadly combination...
...Simon has decided to play some games with McClane, making the cop solve various riddles, with the penalty for failure being a large explosion in a public place. Eventually, Simon threatens to blow up an elementary school. Were this the entire plot, the movie would be a silly, predictable way to cover up a lack of ideas. Fortunately, like its forerunners, "Die Hard With a Vengeance" is full of surprises...
...empty partner slot as Zeus, a former cab driver, current Harlem store-owner and hater of thieves drug-dealers, and white people. After saving McClane's life early in the movie, Zeus comes along for the ride, helping McClane to solve the riddles and do the things that "Simon says." (The film-makers are careful to use every pun and nursery rhyme they can think of with the name Simon...