Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more of a game to show how much pride we had," said captain Tom McLaughlin...
...studio didn't blink when Warner and Disney warned that Jerry Maguire would get steamrollered if it opened at Christmas, in competition with their respective offerings, Mars Attacks and The Preacher's Wife. According to Sony executives, Warner chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel even tried to enlist Tom Cruise to delay Jerry Maguire's Dec. 13 opening. (Daly says he knows nothing about such an effort...
...Tom Mashberg of the Boston Herald didn't know what to make of the call on Aug. 18. Someone was asking him if he wanted to go for a ride, under cover of darkness, and see some of the stolen Gardner loot. He said yes, "but as far as I knew this was a hoax, and I expected to be shown a velvet Elvis." They met in a deserted place. There were two cars, Mashberg says, one man in each. And they took him to a warehouse...
...then came the stinging public criticism of Tom Mashberg and the Herald. A criticism that until then had been only privately grumbled by both law enforcement and museum officials. "In helping these crooks get a ransom, they have been a facilitator of criminal conduct," says attorney Alan Dershowitz, who mercilessly flogged his targets in Boston Magazine. But he didn't stop with Mashberg and the Herald. The Federal Government and the Gardner took some lashes too, for negotiating with scoundrels. "We're not talking about kidnap victims or terrorists holding hostages. It's art. It's great...
Last week negotiations were still open on whether Youngworth would be given immunity for returning a small part of the booty as a show of proof that he could deliver the rest. That, in itself, makes it look like the feds believe Tom Mashberg actually saw the real thing that day. If they thought it was a fake, wouldn't Youngworth and Connor have been sent back into their holes...