Word: tom
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...better at it than most people," says Tom H. Lotze...
Domino's founder Tom Monaghan, 61, has always been a larger-than-life contradiction. He made a fortune pioneering a no-frills pizza-delivery business, then nearly squandered it on his own ostentatious life-style. He struggled for years to rebuild his empire and finally succeeded. Then last month he walked away from it all for the second, and presumably final, time by selling his family's 90% stake in Domino's for an estimated $1 billion to a private investment firm called Bain Capital...
Oprah's Beloved appears to be one more in the current series of racial hate-mongering films. Doesn't anyone remember how Uncle Tom's Cabin, by vilifying the antebellum slave owners, helped bring on a war that cost half a million lives? JERRY PATTERSON Van Nuys, Calif...
...Nationals tournament, Gilchrist was on par with the best in the miniature golfing world. "The regulars are always there," Gilchrist remembers. "Tom Dixon, the best miniature golfer in the world, as he likes to call himself, shows up every year in his 18-wheeler, as do Tommy Thelin, the Swedish Miniature Golf Champ, Elmer Lawson, the man who decided to get married at the sixth hole of this particular course in 1997, as well as the group of middle-aged preppies, one of who, in response to compliment from me last year, stuck his nose up and said...
...Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability to create celebrities--and the viewer's need to embrace them--until it goes soft-hearted and -headed by denouncing the very salesmanship that Hollywood and TV are built on. For an hour or so, though, the film...