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...Mafia hit. But the mangled condition of the bodies argued for a motive of hatred rather than business. Though they pretended to discover the bodies, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, did not put on a very convincing show of grief; they went on a $700,000 spending spree with the insurance money. In March 1990, Judalon Smyth told police that after being asked to sit outside the office of her then lover, psychologist Jerome Oziel, she had overheard the brothers admit the killings to Oziel. Police seized Oziel's tapes and arrested Lyle and Erik on suspicion of having...
...Shopping Spree...
...movie begins sharply, laying out the panoply of privilege: the sleek cars, the comfortable faces (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook). It's like going on a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and then getting whacked with the bill: here is the middle class's Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that...
Home Alone's bonanza sends filmmakers on a PG spree...
...illegally in Saddam Hussein's hands, could help crack the murky scandal known as Iraqgate that dogged George Bush's final months in office. Questions still swirl around the role that Washington and a number of U.S. companies played in supplying Saddam's $100 billion worldwide military shopping spree that led up to his invasion of Kuwait...