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...play with the Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup that included Dylan, Tom Petty and others. But various legal battles took up even more of his time. In 1976 he had to pay $587,000 for "subconsciously plagiarizing" the old Chiffons hit He's So Fine in his melody for My Sweet Lord. In 1991, he brought a seven-figure defamation-of-character suit when the tabloid the Globe published a story calling him a "Big Nazi Fan." And in 1996 he won an $11.6 million judgment against his former business partner in HandMade films, Denis O'Brien, for not assuming...
This much of The Affair of the Necklace is true, and it makes for a sumptuous movie. John Sweet's script supplies Jeanne (Hilary Swank) with a good motive for her crime: she is supposed to be a noblewoman who has lost her lands and family because they fell out of favor with the crown. It also places her in some amusingly bad company--a sexually voracious Cardinal (Jonathan Pryce), a courtier who is too clever by half (Simon Baker), a fake noble husband (Adrien Brody) and the mystic mountebank Cagliostro (Christopher Walken, who is, as always, deliciously weird...
Sovagovic plays him with a sweet, hopeful patience. Indeed, all the actors in No Man's Land are wonderfully alive, fractious and unpredictable. Their performances also help break down the schematics and turn this into an emotionally potent, powerfully thoughtful and finally tragic experience...
SCHOTTENFELD: This terrorism thing you can't quantify. But barring that, I think we're really in the economic sweet spot for stocks. You've got a lot of stimulus: government spending, tax cuts, a concerted effort globally to reduce interest rates. Bull markets never look good when they begin. I'm not saying this is going to be a blowout, but we have all the pieces in place to make a case for buying stocks...
...Worst of all are the electronic signboards that count down the days to the May 31 kickoff. As if it isn't hard enough waiting for the tournament to begin, you have to be reminded constantly how much longer you have to wait. Perhaps in romance, anticipation is sweet; in football, it's torture...