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Sometimes such reactions are born of sour experience; often, however, they simply reflect envy of Japan's drive and organization. Mitsui, a top Japanese trading company, "is better at information gathering than the CIA," swears one Singapore government official. "They send in 20 men to look at an investment. They read everything and they take down everything-even the jokes cracked at meetings." Japanese firms are famous for absorbing absurd losses just to get a piece of a market-which is why Toyota has 25% of the Philippine auto business...
...Sour cream wouldn't melt in Jacobi's mouth, and his face looks like a bowl of stale potato salad. But he wears his troubles like epaulettes, and has he got troubles. He is the owner of a Midwest dry-cleaning establishment, and his wife has just run off with his partner who happens to be his brother. Seeking solace from his New York bachelor son Norman (Martin Huston), Jacobi arrives unannounced (if anything Jacobi does can properly be called unannounced) and finds the boy nonchalantly involved in a homosexual liaison with a friend named Garson (Walter Willison...
...Gone Sour...
...Theoretically, there is a three-point connection between the set and the production concept, which Evangeline describes as "pop art gone sour." First it pushes the pop art connotation. which hopefully conveys the same sort of alienation to the audience that German expressionism would have to Brecht's audiences. Second. A Man's A Man is a play about an individual turning into another individual. In a sense he goes through a rebirth. and the womb imagery becomes important. Third, both the set and the process by which Galy Gay becomes Jeraiah Jip are synthetic...
...Hoffman's pay for that film was $20,000. On the other side of the coin, Mike Frankovich, a former production chief at Columbia, recalls how "Universal failed three times with Shirley MacLaine, yet still gave her $800,000 plus a percentage for Sweet Charity." Sweet Charity went sour, and Shirley has not been swamped with offers. Similarly, Peter Sellers, who has commanded up to $ 1,000,000, got $50,000 and a small percentage for his last picture...