Word: turnaround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Graduate, proposing a ridiculous Graduate sequel. Michael Tolkin, who wrote the screenplay and the 1988 novel on which The Player is based, also appears in the film as a screenwriter. But all the in-jokes are a secondary pleasure, not the essence. Even if you don't know what turnaround means, The Player is a satisfying thriller -- and besides, after reading magazines like Vanity Fair and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and watching shows like Entertainment Tonight, ordinary moviegoers are surprisingly fluent in the nuts and bolts of show business. Indeed, ET's Leeza Gibbons appears in The Player as her chirpy self...
...Hollywood studio. He knows the game, and his bosses know he knows it; he is, in the parlance, a player. And when Mill receives threatening notes from one of his writers, he can play rough. He tracks down a suspect (Vincent D'Onofrio) and puts him in turnaround. He immediately woos the writer's tawny girlfriend (Greta Scacchi) and dumps his own. No screaming, no remorse. Business...
...Well, a lot of people were offended by your swift turnaround on the tax issue. You opposed it when you ran for Governor...
Many businesses are likewise waiting impatiently for the upturn to reach them. "The recovery -- yeah, they announced it the other day," scoffs Tom Barrows, 57, who runs an office-supply shop in Atlanta. "It was good they told me, because I didn't know. I'm not seeing any turnaround or new confidence." Concurs Robert Deck, 48, a Michigan steel salesman: "Nobody's carrying any inventory. If you get an order, it's just enough to get them through that...
Eaton, by contrast, is a rumpled, low-key executive who arrives free of entangling alliances and is willing to wait nearly a year to take Iacocca's job. While Eaton was not the architect of GM's European turnaround, he maintained the momentum of that business after becoming president in 1988. Last year he helped make GM-Europe the most profitable car firm on the Continent, offering its $1.96 billion in earnings as an offset to GM's staggering $8.7 billion loss in North America. "Bob was a very high-energy, direct and pragmatic manager," notes John Smith, vice-president...