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...Guskin either had no larger vision of the play or could not express it. The performances clash in tone and degenerate into monologues and star turns, all but devoid of emotional connection save in the first tender flirtation between Pfeiffer and the disguised Mastrantonio. By far the worst offender is Goldblum, who seemingly has no clue about his character. In a blatant pitch for cheap laughs, he relies on grimaces and gestures from The Fly, topping them off with a pantomime of catching and eating some insect. At best the show skitters along the surface of a script rich...
Some experts viewed the Paramount tactic as a move to buttress its position in Delaware chancery court, where Paramount contends that Time is in effect interfering with its shareholders' desire to tender their stock. "This will add a notch to Paramount's legal argument, but it will only put pressure on Time if 70% to 90% of its shareholders tender their stock to Paramount," said Jeffrey Greenblatt, a partner in Cambridge Capital Holdings. "Time does not have to take any new defensive steps," he added, "because there is no threat that Paramount will be able to acquire Time's stock...
...proceed with the merger in the face of the Paramount attack, Time abandoned its earlier plan for a debt-free, tax-free stock swap with Warner, and instead launched a $70-a-share tender offer for 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares. That would buy Time a controlling interest in its merger partner; the remaining Warner stock will be acquired later in exchange for cash and securities. The deal will cost Time the kind of debt it and Warner had hoped to avoid -- somewhere between $7 billion and $14 billion. Unlike the original Time-Warner arrangement...
...merged company far more flexibility than a Time-Paramount consolidation might have. "The Time-Warner combination left everybody's powder dry to be able to go out and make acquisitions," says Larry Gerbrandt, a vice president of Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based communications-industry analyst. "But in a tender offer like Paramount's, you have to load up with a tremendous amount of debt that limits your options. The strategy can work, but it's much riskier...
...reborn. The time is 1972, and a crisis has brought Zoe to her Wisconsin hometown. Avoiding the draft, her brother had fled to Canada; now he is a drug addict in a local mental hospital. Through him Zoe reawakens from the arid existence of the once loved; recapturing a tender moment they shared as children brings redemption. She learns that "love isn't something you wait for. It's something you do." The novel has echoes of faddish self-help themes, but by interweaving the stories and dreams of three willful women, Morris offers a comforting truth about families...