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...they do not sink all their assets back into the business. "You do want to have a varied financial mixed portfolio that includes items like stocks, IRAs, T-bills and the like," says Tom Zanecchia, president and founder of Wealth Management Consultants, a Denver firm. "If the business should sour with the next generation and you're planning to live off only those proceeds, you may run into some hard times...
...weaknesses, but optimism wasn't one of them. "I'm a degenerate gambler," he said in 1994. "If I get lucky, I'll die before I go broke." He went out (as a dying meanie in Hanging Up) the way he came in: like the sour sage who believes nothing he hears--or says. If Walter Matthau were to be told that Walter Matthau had died, he'd ask for a second opinion...
What he learns is not exactly earth-shattering. But perhaps the ordinariness of his troubles is one of the movie's points. It doesn't take much to turn a life sour. It can take quite a bit of effort to sweeten it after the bad, vengeful habits have set in. What's good about this movie, written with witty restraint by Audrey Wells, is that it doesn't try to explain how Rusty arrived in the year 2000 from 1968. He is not an angel from heaven; he's just a kid lost in a time warp, as puzzled...
...think it was more a case of sour grapes by people who didn't win," Driskell says. "Perhaps some of [the impeachment bill's sponsors] had particular vendettas against Burton...
Though the political end of the organization did interest Campbell somewhat, he had always favored the social opportunities it fostered more. Nevertheless, he became an executive board member by his sophomore year. That's when things started to go sour...